Leonardo Losoviz says GraphQL can “rejuvenate”…

ByDan Knauss Posted onFebruary 17, 2021

Leonardo Losoviz says GraphQL can “rejuvenate” the WordPress data model. ⚡

Dan Hacks compares REST with GraphQL…

ByDan Knauss March 16, 2021

Dan Hacks compares REST with GraphQL and gRPC in this guide to each with their pros and cons. Dan shows how each would be used in the typical case of retrieving a user.

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Leonardo Losoviz describes how to implement…

ByDan Knauss January 28, 2021

Leonardo Losoviz describes how to implement a GraphQL server with components in PHP. He starts by defining components, and then he describes “the architectural design of the GraphQL server in PHP GraphQL by PoP, which uses components as a data structure instead of graphs.”

The fastest (headless) WooCommerce on earth…

ByDan Knauss August 30, 2022August 30, 2022

So they say. Specifically, David Mainayar said in Woo Weekly #399 that it’s the fastest he’s seen, and I imagine he’s seen a lot.

Lessons for WordPress, from Drupalcon

ByBrian Krogsgard September 23, 2015

Drupalcon is happening, and Drupal founder Dries Buytaert has made his keynote slides available. They are highly informative and well worth looking through, even without the presentation audio. I’ll highlight the big items, but seriously just see the slides, because it’s good to peek across the fence (they are also beautiful). Drupal 8 has been in “feature…

WordExpress is an open-source experiment by Ramsay…

ByBrian Krogsgard June 14, 2016

WordExpress is an open-source experiment by Ramsay Lanier that “aims to provide a better development experience” in WordPress using Javascript instead of PHP. It is a Node.js application using Express on the back end and React components on the template, and therefore not using HTML/PHP templates. In the middle, it uses a GraphQL server that queries…