I've done a headless react Spa with ACF and Apollo based on a previous video and it works nicely after you helped me out with a tip regarding routing, and it rocks. I think at this point the main thing that would prevent me from actually using headless WP in production for relaunches or new WP installations are the following two: a) security and updating - the attack surface for WordPress may be smaller, but there's the added surface of whichever framework is applied and to be honest, it's easier to track vulnerabilities in wp plugins than in npm installed components, at least for me at this point. How wld you deal with that? And b) gdpr consent management. A tool like ComplianZ is a must-have on any site, and while I can imagine there's a hack to use it in a headless setup, it's probably not nearly as simple to set up as with wp-head. Are there consent frameworks that have similar functionality that work well with headless wp? I should mention that most sites I handle would benefit from headless, but at the same time aren't sufficiently big to warrant too much hand-crafted tooling.
Awesome, glad you could use our resources to get going. With NPM packages, you can get updates through dependabot via GitHub, that alerts you to vulnerabilities and can help keep you packages up to date automatically. It's kind of nice TBH. For the GDPR stuff, yeah there is going to be more work than just installing a plugin, but there are some pre-made components and tutorials that could help you implement: github.com/Mastermindzh/react-cookie-consent Thanks for watching and the thoughtful questions, JE
None of these videos every do anything more then a surface level overview of everything. Make a tutorial for beginners that includes actually programming of header, footers and content layouts. I download some ready to github from Corey and I can't even figure out where to embed my Google fonts or how to start reverse engineering these solutions. And then what about longevity, updates to code etc, how does one continue operating a stable build with the latest updates.
Hey BW, thanks for that feedback. I think where we struggle is that tutorial might end up needing to be more of a multi-hour course spread across several videos, and we weren't sure people would watch it. But you bring up a really valid point about what resources we need to help people bridge the gap to really implement these patterns. Thanks for taking the time to watch and leave your feedback. If we were to develop a full-fledged course that did a deep dive into this, would you take it? Thanks again for the dialog - JE
Hey @@MaryamZafar-xk2dg! If you're interested in doing headless WP with ACF and WPGraphQL, we cover that in this article (wpengine.com/builders/crash-course-build-a-headless-wordpress-app-with-faust-and-atlas-content-modeler/) and this video (ua-cam.com/video/q71fEdtqoHI/v-deo.html). We hope they're helpful!
I've done a headless react Spa with ACF and Apollo based on a previous video and it works nicely after you helped me out with a tip regarding routing, and it rocks. I think at this point the main thing that would prevent me from actually using headless WP in production for relaunches or new WP installations are the following two: a) security and updating - the attack surface for WordPress may be smaller, but there's the added surface of whichever framework is applied and to be honest, it's easier to track vulnerabilities in wp plugins than in npm installed components, at least for me at this point. How wld you deal with that? And b) gdpr consent management. A tool like ComplianZ is a must-have on any site, and while I can imagine there's a hack to use it in a headless setup, it's probably not nearly as simple to set up as with wp-head. Are there consent frameworks that have similar functionality that work well with headless wp? I should mention that most sites I handle would benefit from headless, but at the same time aren't sufficiently big to warrant too much hand-crafted tooling.
Awesome, glad you could use our resources to get going. With NPM packages, you can get updates through dependabot via GitHub, that alerts you to vulnerabilities and can help keep you packages up to date automatically. It's kind of nice TBH. For the GDPR stuff, yeah there is going to be more work than just installing a plugin, but there are some pre-made components and tutorials that could help you implement: github.com/Mastermindzh/react-cookie-consent Thanks for watching and the thoughtful questions, JE
Thanks again for your tips! Will check them out =)
None of these videos every do anything more then a surface level overview of everything. Make a tutorial for beginners that includes actually programming of header, footers and content layouts. I download some ready to github from Corey and I can't even figure out where to embed my Google fonts or how to start reverse engineering these solutions. And then what about longevity, updates to code etc, how does one continue operating a stable build with the latest updates.
Hey BW, thanks for that feedback. I think where we struggle is that tutorial might end up needing to be more of a multi-hour course spread across several videos, and we weren't sure people would watch it. But you bring up a really valid point about what resources we need to help people bridge the gap to really implement these patterns. Thanks for taking the time to watch and leave your feedback. If we were to develop a full-fledged course that did a deep dive into this, would you take it? Thanks again for the dialog - JE
@@WPEngineBuilders I'd take it, it would be better with Astro, I think it'd rock!
@@diegoalvarez437 Awesome, this is def. something I'm thinking about doing - JE
@@WPEngineBuilders , Did you ever get around making that course? 🙂
Hey @@MaryamZafar-xk2dg! If you're interested in doing headless WP with ACF and WPGraphQL, we cover that in this article (wpengine.com/builders/crash-course-build-a-headless-wordpress-app-with-faust-and-atlas-content-modeler/) and this video (ua-cam.com/video/q71fEdtqoHI/v-deo.html). We hope they're helpful!