JMeter by default doesn't have any TruClient like capabilities. It is when integrated with Selenium, it brings out certain other aspects of performance which are useful.
But in your case, I would highly suggest using React Developer Tools (chrome extension by Facebook) for all performance measurements related to ReactJS Apps. Once that is installed you would notice 2 additional tabs in Chrome's Dev Tools which will help you along for performance optimizations.

I would personally follow a 2 pronged approach for optimizations
- Measure performance for single users using React Dev tools, sit on them and optimize them
- Once single user performance is satisfactory, I would push load to backend using load testing tools (could be JMeter) and leverage React Dev tools once again to measure & address any client side performance issues when backend is loaded