My step by step process of a decoupled wordpress backend with a gatsby front end. I chose gatsby+wordpress because I wanted to own my data and tech stack. Plus, a developer friend told me that a similar project was part of a portfolio that got her a senior position. I’ve been making simple websites with HTML, CSS, and Javascript for decades and basically stagnated because I don’t code professionally – the motivation just wasn’t there to learn. During the pandemic I went back to school for a bachelor’s in software development and I am trying to get up to speed in the web development world -_-;
Prerequisites:
- Nodejs
- Git
Install gatsby cli
npm install -g gatsby-cli
Generate the project:
gatsby new project-name-here https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby-starter-wordpress-blog
After that run
gatsby develop
from the terminal in visual studio code and get to customizing!
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