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https://github.com/japgolly/scalajs-react is pretty heavily used as well, and fairly active as a project. In short, building it off of that wouldn't be a huge risk over typescript, and might even be a net win in the long run, as you could re-use some stuff from the backend in the front-end.
TypeScript is relatively mainstream at this point, and I think that's good news. If you want to crank the type-safety and pure FP dials on it to 11, you certainly can do that. I have a project that I've based largely on this post, including the "hardcore" section. However, instead of Redux and otherwise plain React, I've chosen to use Cycle.js and the lessons from this post to use React in a very purely Functional Reactive Programming Way.