Wrap your component to get meteor data, handle subscriptions, and stop updates due to meteor data causing re-render.
SomeClass = MeteorData(React.createClass({ render(){ // Use the data this.props.data; //... } }), getData(){ return Data.find().fetch(); }, requestSubscriptions(){ // Array of Subscriptions (subscription is array of args) return [["subscriptiotName", "arg1"]]; }, shouldUpdate(props){ if( dontRedraw ){ return false; }else{ return true; } });