routecore isn't playing well with react 0.10.0, which is the latest version. it hasn't been updated for a few months, and there are a few javascript errors. i'm not willing to really look into them myself, nor file a bug on github, since there is only one developer on the routecore project. just gonna switch back to regular spacebars for now.
had to scrap react because of lack of package support. sticking to straight blaze (handlebars) now. didn't fix all the css yet, but most of it is still good. also added iron router'