I scrapped 2 months worth of work on a headless front end application for Siren, and went server-side with PHP. In doing so, I literally built the entire interface in 3 days.
Why are we still so stuck on headless?
-
-
Alex Standiford
The interface is coming along. There’s still a lot I want to do to improve this screen (filters, search, etc), but as a barebones starting point with fully-supported CRUD operations, I’m pleased with the results.
A Nerdy Note – There’s a lot going on under the hood, here. This app is platform agnostic, so it can be changed to run as a mobile app instead – with complete extensibility of the interface from the server. I’ll get into how all of that works someday.
-
Alex Standiford
Me: what would make this blog post with tons of images nicer, Kate?
Kate: They all need to be grouped up in a carousel, like Instagram
Me: gaaaaah I knew you were gonna say that!
And that’s why I spent the last hour turning the gallery blocks on Casual Weirdness and my personal site into galleries. Which, honestly, was pretty easy because React.
-
I built a Headless Multisite WordPress platform With GraphQL
This post explores the details that went into into my personal content publishing platform for my site, as well as the other blogs that I run.
-
Alex Standiford
Headless WordPress is kind-of awful if you’re just using WordPress as a website. Here, I offer a different paradigm that offers most of the benefits of Headless WordPress without the maintenance headaches that come with it.
-
Alex Standiford
Making some progress on my #react – based #WordPress website. I’m REALLY coming to like React.