Proof of concept: blog as React SPA, with Wordpress backend
Wordpress now has a cool Calypso front-end for typing blog posts. It also has a JSON API for fetching / browsing the posts, which means we can pull posts into a React SPA...
See it in action on http://react-on-calypso-blog.tk/
- Make use of prerender.io for SEO
- Simplify the codebase
- Don't load full content on Posts List (root) page. Potentially build a simple nodejs proxy and use Cloudflare for caching. It should become super-fast!
- Add some user-specific details (e.g. let users mark posts as "Favorite")