This was started out of me trying for hours to figure out how to make React components work in the official Aurelia-Webpack-Skeleton. I found a great JSPM tutorial that aided in guiding me How to Use React.js In Aurelia. I want to give a lot of credit to Dwayne his work allowed me to forge this webpack solution.
Install dependencies:
npm install
Spin up the aurelia official skeleton.
npm start
Navigate to the React Example Route: http://localhost:8080/#/react
You can find how I accomplished this in the wiki.