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Pablo Postigo • Edited

Great article @developertharun

For anyone ending up in this article and struggling with the build times or the static limitations, I'd like to recommend Frontity (frontity.org). With Frontity you always have a Node server or a serverless function running, so your pages are generated dynamically, and you don't have to deal with build times.

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.

Disclaimer: I'm one of the creators :)

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Tharun Shiv

Just wow! Can't wait to have an hands on. Will do it this weekend. Thanks a lot, both for your work and for the comment!

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Pablo Postigo

Great to read this! I'd love to know your impressions :)

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Omar Elbaga

This is very interesting. But isn't it possible to use wordpress API for data in react either way by just fetching the json? How does frontify enhance the process