There’s been a lot of chatter in the WordPress space about headless vs traditional WP development. I’ve done WP dev for a while, and only recently started learning more about full-on headless development with WordPress.
Are any of you currently using Local as part of your headless dev stack? Would you be willing to share how you are doing this?
Specific points I’d be curious about:
- What are you using to serve the client-side of things? (ie, the non-WordPress part)
- For example, are you manually firing up an express server alongside the Local WordPress site?
- What tools are you using to manage that secondary infrastructure?
- What’s the general front-end site built with? Any specific framework you are using, or are you hand-rolling everything?
- What pain points or gotchas do you have when it comes time to deploy? Where are you deploying to?
- Are there any plugins you are using for your editor that are essential to headless WP development?
- What OS are you using? I’m on a Mac mostly, but also bounce around to Ubuntu and Pop_OS and occasionally on Windows.