Why is reactjs killing jquery?

Question

JavaScript

There is a "component" in react + a bunch of jquery plugins, so all plugins die when react is connected. The console is empty.
And if you remove

this.test = ReactDOM.render(<test/>, document.getElementById('test'));

Plugins miraculously come to life

Answer 1

because VirtualDOM works under the hood, which diffs some object with the real DOM and, in case of a mismatch, rolls back all changes to the DOM.
try to initialize plugins via ref in react itself