Building an App with WordPress’ REST API

Presentation for Boston WordCamp 2017. This presentation was made with reveal.js.

View the presentation at https://gopperman.github.io/wordcamp2017/

View the (unfinished) demo source code at: https://github.com/gopperman/breedtv-react

Tools and Frameworks

• Basic Authentication: An authentication plugin for WordPress
• create-react-app: The easiest way to bootstrap React apps with minimal configuration
• react-native: Build native mobile apps using JavaScript and React
• wp-react-skeleton: A bare bones theme for serving a react app within a WordPress theme, by yours truly
• Picard: Automattic's experimental React-WordPress integration
• wp-api-react: A standalone react framework, with flux support (via Alt). Read more about it here

Further Reading

• WP REST API v2 Guide
• WP REST API Developer Reference
• Intro to React
• Understanding the React Component Lifecycle
• Flux Overview
• Redux Guide
• (Video) Scott Taylor: REST in Action – The Live Coverage Platform at the New York Times