Integrating React with WordPress & its API.
Topic Category: Advanced Development/Workshop
Speaker Type: National
Speaker Bio:
Rakesh Lawaju is a Web developer, trainer and recently an entrepreneur based in Nepal who has been in web field since 2008. He is Co-Founder/ CTO of WEN Solutions, a company primarily develops WordPress plugins and gives WordPress related support. He is also project lead for WP Travel, a WordPress trip and travel management plugin.
He has developed multiple WordPress plugins, contributed to open source projects and is collaborating with Graph Paper Press for its plugin and theme development. During the release of WordPress 4.4 “Clifford”, he has contributed on WordPress core and contributed in translating WordPress in Nepali. He was a speaker on WordCamp Nepal 2015 and is a frequent speaker on WordPress meetups. He was on the organizer team of WordCamp Kathmandu 2016 and 2017. He has been an instructor for Web development on PHP and WordPress development related topics. He is an easy going person who enjoys listening to music, learning new things and sharing his knowledge.
Session Summary:
As WordPress is moving towards new changes like API & React, many programmers and developers seem to be confused about these new changes. To adopt the changes we need to have basics clear, so our session will cover some basics that can help WordPress developers to get started with WordPress API & React.
This workshop is basically about exploring the flexibilities of WordPress with popular technologies in the market. We will talk about using one of the popular UI libraries React alongside WordPress. We will be consuming the API provided by WordPress in a React project.
We will build an infinite scrolling archive page in WordPress Theme using React where we will explain different features and possible uses of React in WordPress.
Other Team Member
– Rabin Gaire
– Roshan Gautam
Intended Audience:Developers who want to learn integrating React with WordPress & its API