Building React frontends for WordPress
summary
A React mobile theme called Frontity Pro uses the WordPress REST API as a headless backend and implements server-side rendering with a zero‑setup framework, built‑in routing and state management. The project ships instant navigation and swipe between categories and articles, and it serves millions of page views in production. One publisher sees measurable uplifts — pageviews, organic traffic, time on site and conversions all increase — demonstrating the approach actually works.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:34Headless CMS architecture
- 2:51Case study and demo
- 4:49Frontity framework features
- 6:00Conclusion and resources
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