headless-wp-rest-poc

Proof of concept for headless WordPress using the REST API, Redis caching layer and next.js.

To do

• add Redis caching layer between frontend and WordPress.
• Add a cache clear mechanism in WordPress.
• Create cache warmer script which fires after cached is cleared
• Create benchmarks.

In Progress

• add Redis caching layer between frontend and WordPress.

Done

• Scaffold WordPress environment with some pages / posts / a menu.
• Add simple WordPress REST Routes to supply the data the frontend needs.
• Scaffold Next.js frontend
• Set up CORS for WP Rest endpoints to only accept requests from frontend origin.
• Add SSR caching with Redis in frontend.

Nice to have's

• Find out a good way to map (Visual Composer) shortcodes to React components
• Find out a good way to handle SEO (meta, robots.txt, sitemap.xml etc)
• Find out a good way to handle forms
• Add a 404 page
• Make this project a PWA