USING WORDPRESS WITH STATIC SITE GENERATORS
WordCamp U.S. 2019
Who Am I?
- Senior Web Engineer at Gatsby in Denver, CO
- Denver native
- WordPress Developer for 10+ years
- I love WordPress, and Open Source in general
- Creator & maintainer of WPGraphQL
Jason Bahl | @jasonbahl
JSON
Gatsby is a free and open source framework based on React that helps developers build blazing fast websites and apps
File System
MySQL Search
Theme API
REST API
WP MEDIA OFFLOAD
GraphQL API
Enables you to do the same things you do with WordPress today, but better
WordPress User Request
Gatsby User Request
- Template Hierarchy
- Routing
- Search
- Preview
- Live Data Updates
What We're Working On at Gatsby
WordPress is just for blogs
& marketing sites
& ecommerce sites
WordPress is an application platform
NOT JUST
^
Just a Static Site Generator
Just a Static Site Generator
NOT
Gatsby is an application framework
Application
Platform
Application
Framework
WCUS 2019
By Jason Bahl
WCUS 2019
WordPress as a headless application framework for Gatsby
