one thing you must attention is , create Interval in Componentwillmount

i suggest you use adonis.js framework for working on Back-end with Node.JS

just improve yourself with practice and analyze other template , you can download source code from any website that publish template and after than go to create a web site same step by step this can help you very much learn css framework such as BOOTSTRAP and FOUNDATION and undrestand this framework not just use http://getbootstrap.com/ http://getbootstrap.com/