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Build Web Application with React + WordPress

Wait! What? We can build WordPress applications using React!

Yes! You heard it right. This can be easily achieved with the combination of WordPress REST API and React Js; a modern JavaScript Library. Building web applications using Word Press and React is an exemplary choice for content-driven applications.

But why WordPress? The reason: WordPress is a content management system with rich functionalities. It allows you to handle user management, Media, and content on your own. This means one need not have any specific technical knowledge to understand it.

Moving ahead, allow us to enlighten you with how we can build this amazing and user-friendly website. While strolling online, I found one of the great React-based frameworks that make it easy to build web applications in combination with WordPress. And that framework is Frontity .

Before we dive right into the topic, here is a pro tip for all the readers. If you wish to hire ReactJS developers, Clarion can help you with that. Also, you can hire WordPress developers for your software development needs.

What is Frontity?

Frontity is a free and open-source framework. It enables you to easily build a React-based frontend for a headless (or decoupled) WordPress site. Your WordPress site serves its data via the REST API, and the frontend that you build with Frontity consumes this data and renders it in the browser as a SPA (Single Page Application) which you can configure and style to your liking.

You might have a question in your mind, why WordPress and React? The reason is, WordPress is one of the most popular CMS which serves more than 35% of websites on the internet. Its market share is growing with each passing day for the last couple of years and shows no sign of slowing down. And, if we talk about reach, it is growing in popularity and becoming essential for great user experience.

How Frontity works with WordPress?

Frontity uses WordPress as a back-end system to manage the content, media. You can easily change and it automatically updates on the Frontity (front-end) application, just like a traditional WordPress theme.

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