react with Rails 5, getting CSRF error for post with axios

I'm trying to use react_on_rails to build my first example with react and rails. I'm trying to save some data to the rails backend, using axios for the ajax.

here's my code:

import store from "../store/helloWorld";
import axios from "axios";

export const SAVE_NAME = "SAVE_NAME";

export function saveNameAction(name) {
  return {
    type: SAVE_NAME,
    name
  };
}

export function saveName(name) {
  axios
    .post("/hello_world", saveNameAction(name))
    .then(function(response) {
      console.log(response);
    })
    .catch(function(error) {
      console.log(error);
    });
}

and the component:

import PropTypes from "prop-types";
import React from "react";
import * as actions from "../actions/helloWorld";

export default class HelloWorld extends React.Component {
  static propTypes = {
    name: PropTypes.string.isRequired // this is passed from the Rails view
  };

  /**
   * @param props - Comes from your rails view.
   */
  constructor(props) {
    super(props);
    this.state = { name: this.props.name };
  }

  updateName(name) {
    this.setState({ name: name });
  }

  handleSubmit(event) {
    event.preventDefault();
    actions.saveName(this.state.name);
  }

  render() {
    return (
      <div>
        <h3>
          Hellopp, {this.state.name}!
        </h3>
        <hr />
        <form>
          <label htmlFor="name">Say hello to:</label>
          <input
            id="name"
            type="text"
            value={this.state.name}
            onChange={e => this.updateName(e.target.value)}
          />

          <input
            type="submit"
            value="Submit"
            onClick={event => this.handleSubmit(event)}
          />
        </form>
      </div>
    );
  }
}

The problem is that when I click the submit, my backend reports

Started POST "/hello_world" for ::1 at 2017-07-07 15:30:44 +0200
Processing by HelloWorldController#create as HTML
  Parameters: {"type"=>"SAVE_NAME", "name"=>"Stranger", "hello_world"=>{"type"=>"SAVE_NAME", "name"=>"Stranger"}}
Can't verify CSRF token authenticity.
Completed 422 Unprocessable Entity in 1ms (ActiveRecord: 0.0ms)

ActionController::InvalidAuthenticityToken (ActionController::InvalidAuthenticityToken):

For one, I don't understand why the parameters seem to be passed twice, but that's not even generating a warning, so don't care for now.

The problem is that I don't see a way to obtain the CSRF tokens in my react code to use in the post requests

should I just disable CSRF? or is there a better way?