esphen / press.js

A React app using WordPress as the backend to provide a single-page blog.

Press.js

A React app using WordPress as the backend to provide a single-page blog.

Development

For developing press.js, a wordpress server is required. This is very easy to do using docker. First install docker and follow the instructions below.

Wordpress

To set up a mariadb and wordpress container for development, run the following:

# Set up wordpress mysql container
$ docker run --name press-mariadb -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=a-secret-pw -d mariadb
# Set up wordpress docker container
$ docker run --name press-wordpress --link press-mariadb:mysql -p 8080:80 -d wordpress

After this, wordpress should be running on http://localhost:8080. Go there and fill in the form to set it up for first use.

Try going to http://localhost:8080/?rest\_route=/wp/v2/posts and you should see a JSON result. If not, something went wrong.

Press.js

To run press.js locally, first make sure you are running the correct version of node.js and npm. Node.js >= 8 is highly encouraged, and can be installed using nvm with the following command.

$ nvm install

Now install javascript dependencies with npm.

$ npm install

Finally you can run the development server using npm.

$ npm start