Chapter 6. Creating a Simple Web App using WordPress REST API

So far, we have learnt how to send and receive POST and GET requests in REST API using WordPress, as well as working with posts and post metadata, categories and tags, among other things. As we proceed further with our learning guide, we will now focus on how to create a frontend for our website or app.

Overview

The whole process of content rendering from frontend content to JavaScript or other programming languages that are relatable to frontend is provided by the WordPress REST API, which provides us with the ability to transfer the said process of frontend. JavaScript will then provide us with the opportunity to increase the interactivity and its performance, thus the arisen necessity ...

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