Headless Wp Starter
WordPress + React Starter Kit: Spin up a WordPress-powered React app in one step
Overview
Postlight's Headless WordPress + React Starter Kit is an automated toolset that allows users to create a WordPress backend with a React frontend. It utilizes the WP REST API and GraphQL to serve data from the WordPress backend. The kit also includes a sample server-side rendered React frontend using Next.js powered by the WP REST API. It provides an automated installer, necessary plugins, and Docker containers for easy installation and deployment.
Features
- Automated installer for a core WordPress installation with a stable REST API.
- Newer GraphQL API for WordPress exposed through a plugin.
- Required plugins for custom post types and custom fields.
- Plugins to expose custom fields and WordPress menus in the WP REST API.
- JWT authentication plugins for secure user sign-in.
- Starter WordPress theme code and settings optimized for headless setup.
- Mechanism for importing data from existing WordPress installations using WP Migrate DB Pro.
- Sample frontend React app powered by GraphQL.
- Sample server-side rendered React app using Next.js and WP REST API.
- Docker containers and scripts for easy local development and deployment.
- Next.js
Next.js is a React-based web framework that enables server-side rendering, static site generation, and other powerful features for building modern web applications.
- React
React is a widely used JavaScript library for building user interfaces and single-page applications. It follows a component-based architecture and uses a virtual DOM to efficiently update and render UI components
