The Text Renaissance and the Eighth Death of Blogging
Dan Knauss
Is there a return to text-focused publishing on the web underway? If so, what does that mean for WordPress?
WP Decoupled is a React theme…
Dan Knauss
WP Decoupled is a React theme boilerplate for WordPress, built with Next JS, Webpack, Babel, Node, Express, and WPGraphQL.
Ryan Welcher from 10up introduced SlotFill…
Dan Knauss
Ryan Welcher from 10up introduced SlotFill — "a modernized take on classic interface 'hooks and filters' in WordPress" that extends Gutenberg's interface. Slot and Fill are a pair of React components that allow developers to inject items into predefined spaces.…
Losing Your Head 🗣️ Dan Fries…
Dan Knauss
Losing Your Head 🗣️ Dan Fries thinks the future of websites is "headless CMS." He explains what counts as headless and the pros and cons of different headless solutions. Dan notes WordPress and other platforms "account for more than 60%…
If you are thinking about dipping…
Dan Knauss
If you are thinking about dipping your toes into Vue JS and you're already comfortable with jQuery, then "Making the Move from jQuery to Vue" by Raymond Camden over at CSS Tricks should be right up your alley. Raymond offers…
đź“ş Two recent videos worth watching/listening…
Dan Knauss
đź“ş Two recent videos worth watching/listening to: Ella van Durpe (JavaScript Engineer at Automattic) talked about
An Interview with Reyes MartĂnez of Frontity — a new WordPress framework
Dan Knauss
Reyes MartĂnez directs Digital Marketing and Communications at Frontity. She gave us some background and answered a few of our questions about the company and the project.
Delicious Brains shared in a recent…
Dan Knauss
Delicious Brains shared in a recent post how they replaced all of the jQuery with React in WP Migrate DB Pro.
Gary Pendergast doesn’t believe React makes…
Brian Krogsgard
Gary Pendergast doesn't believe React makes WordPress development more difficult: If you’re new to web development, React is just as easy as anything else to start with... There’s still a lot of work to do to make web development something…
Zac Gordon recently announced the launch…
Dan Knauss
Zac Gordon recently announced the launch of Gatsby Themes, which is intended to be a home for "popular WordPress themes that have been ported to Gatsby." Twenty Nineteen is one of the first themes ready for use with Gatsby, a static…
Hussain Thajutheen has shared a WordPress auth…
Dan Knauss
Hussain Thajutheen has shared a WordPress auth app he built with React and WordPress JWT. Hussain bootstrapped this project with Create React App.
Leonardo Maldonado explains why he thinks why…
Dan Knauss
Leonardo Maldonado explains why he thinks why GraphQL is the future of APIs. Leonardo has another interesting post on how to write your first React hook.
Trey Huffine has a nice recap…
Brian Krogsgard
Trey Huffine has a nice recap of some of the most important frontend news of 2018. React, jQuery, Angular, and Vue round out the top four downloads for popular frontend modules. React continues to dominate by this measure. 📊
Dan Abramov, a Facebook engineer on…
Dan Knauss
Dan Abramov, a Facebook engineer on the React team, lists all of the things he does not know. It's great to see a well-known software engineer make it clear you do NOT have to know everything, even in your particular programming…
David Gwyer has put together a…
Brian Krogsgard
David Gwyer has put together a boilerplate WordPress plugin that implements a "simple React app" in the admin and front end. Interesting and worth checking out.
WooCommerce recently gave us a glimpse…
Dan Knauss
WooCommerce recently gave us a glimpse into some JavaScript-powered changes scheduled for early 2019, including reports (some new, others improved), an improved notification experience, better management tools, and a new dashboard. For me, the dashboard preview was the most impressive.…
