Intro To Headless WordPress

New to headless WordPress? Heard about it and are not sure where to start?
A headless WordPress architecture disconnects the frontend from the backend, which opens up many possibilities for the technologies that a developer can use to build the client. Headless WordPress offers optimal performance, enhanced security, and the freedom to create remarkable user experiences across various platforms. However, this flexibility can feel intimidating!
Join Grace and Fran as we explain the fundamentals of headless architecture, technical decisions you'll need to make, and tools to make development easier. Finally, we will build a single-page headless site to show how it all comes together!
Resources:
builders.wpengine.com
developers.wpengine.com/discord
wpengine.com/atlas
events.wpengine.com/DECODE2024

[@alexzahrai4703]

Great video. I'm currently building a headless WP blog using Astro + React with Tailwind for styles and ACF Pro for custom fields/flexible content. Querying data with WPGraphQL is a breeze and the built-in IDE is super handy for composing and visualizing your queries and data. Having built traditional Wordpress websites using page builders like Divi, as well as coded custom themes with PHP, I will say that I am really enjoying the headless approach!

[@joansey56]

Awesome job, thanks for sharing

[@visualmodo]

Really good work! =D

[@SkyrimBeast]

Little late to this party, but I don't see the link to the repo anywhere.

[@WPEngineBuilders]

Hi there - here's the repo! github.com/Fran-A-Dev/headless-faust101 I would also recommend you join us in the Discord community if you have any questions: discord.gg/headless-wordpress-836253505944813629 - Sam ✨ Community Manager

[@SkyrimBeast]

@@WPEngineBuilders Thank you so much Sam!

[@alsherifkhalaf7385]

Why you don't use app router in nextjs ?

[@WPEngineBuilders]

For this one, we just wanted to use Faust.js with the Pages Router for ease. We do have some App Router content for headless WordPress and Faust.js does support the App Router in experimental. Let me know if you have any questions about that. Also our Discord channel has a lot of resources!

[@ahmadkhaled7497]

Fun fact, He mentions that every 10 seconds a new JS framework. Later on the videos: " we introduce our very own JS framework that's built on top of next js framework" 😅

[@WPEngineBuilders]

Hahahahah right???