From the course: Building a Headless WordPress App with REST API

Building a headless app with the WP REST API

From the course: Building a Headless WordPress App with REST API

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Building a headless app with the WP REST API

- [Morten] The web is constantly evolving and we constantly find new and different and sometimes, better ways of solving old problems. One such evolution is the emergence of so called headless applications. Standalone applications that receive and send data from CMS's and other data providers without actually being connected to them. This allows designers and developers to break the confines of whatever CMS is used and instead work with pure data they can use and percent in any way they choose. Pretty much the fulfillment of age old promise of total separation of content from its presentation. In this course, we'll work together to do exactly this, build a standalone headless application using WordPress as a data provider with all communication happening through the WordPress REST API. We'll build new content types, new content fields, new content roles and capabilities, add advanced authentication and we'll build new content types, new content fields, new roles, capabilities and new authentication and we'll build a headless app from scratch using HTML, CSS and modern JavaScript. Headless apps are very much both the present and the future of the web and I'm here to show you how to get started with headless WordPress. So let's get crackin'.

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