I would never consider using something like Ember / AngularJS. However React.js has def sparked interest. Being bound to a framework is less that ideal but having a modular libary with regards to UI is a neat idea.
Not ready to move over however I have started to use ‘states’ and restructure how we handle these plugins based on what they do in react.js Alexander Schepanovski explains the idea pretty well in this post:
http://hackflow.com/blog/2015/03/08/boiling-react-down-to-few-lines-in-jquery/