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Want to use Express to build a Node.JS server to proxy the WordPress REST API? Josh Pollock shows how you how.
Express is a JavaScript routing system that is very popular for server-side JavaScript applications. I learned a few things about it from Josh’s post.
Summer School 🏫 Jen McFarland and Brian DeConinck put together a summer news roundup for the WPCampus video podcast you can watch/listen to or read. 🎓 Among other things, they discuss WCEU and the upcoming annual WPCampus conference on July 25-27 at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. Registration will remain open until July 7. The…
A plain-English look at using JavaScript in WordPress, enqueuing scripts with dependencies, and preventing JavaScript conflicts.
The folks from The Theme Foundry have released a new theme called Collections, which is a post formats centric, Backbone powered WordPress theme. They emailed me to let me know they were wrapping up a Backbone powered theme, and I was intrigued and asked if I could take a closer look. So they showed me…
Zac Gordon outlines his plans at JavaScript for WordPress. More bootcamps and books are coming along with a platform for new teachers. Also mentioned: a focus on new speakers and MCs for conferences. 🎤
Danny van Kooten relates how and why he rewrote his application for Boxzilla from PHP/Laraval to the Go programming language. He shares some differences and benchmarks, but since Go is a compiled language it’s not a straight “apples to apples” comparison. Danny believes, “we’ll see a crazy amount of people switching from dynamically typed languages…
Google has officially released its Native Lazyload plugin for WordPress to take advantage of the Chrome browser’s new native lazy-loading capabilities. For other browsers, there is JavaScript fallback. Jon Henshaw explains how the plugin works, with this advice: “If the purpose of implementing lazy-loading is strictly for improving user experience, web developers may want to…
