Just How Niche is Headless WordPress?
Chris Coyier,
CSS-Tricks,
Jun 15, 2021
A lot of the work I've been doing with gRSShopper over the last few months is very similar in nature to what's being discussed here - "building out the user-facing site through the WordPress REST API rather than the traditional WordPress theme structure." For me, it has meant a lot of painstaking conversion of old CGI page-rendering functions to functions that produce JSON and are rendered locally using Javascript, and I'm doing it to enable cloud-based functionality I can access with a light interface wherever I want. But nothing is so simple as that, as I've been learning lesson by lesson. Now this article approaches the issue from the perspective of spin - will it become popular, will be be widely demanded, etc? It's not, so it's a 'niche thing'. Maybe in the world it is, but I'm thinking that in the wider world, and in the longer term, we'll build sites that serve data, and let the end-user decide how they want to work with that data. Image: Torque.
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