faust.js, the framework for headless wordpress

Over the past six months, Faust team has been researching, prototyping, and testing out new way of building Headless WordPress sites that focuses on developer experience..   There are number of different frameworks to choose from such as Next.js, Gatsby, Nuxt, and SvelteKit to name few. .   Faust focuses on delivering the developer experience when building on Headless WordPress while preserving the publishing experience you know and love with WordPress.   Custom Post Types adding Custom Post Types to your WordPress site and then accessing them on the frontend is trivial..   Flexibility While Faust works best if you want to use other tools such as Gatsby, Nuxt, and SvelteKit you can do that...   By forcing them to log in to some external site or view their preview page inside of frame, At the time few options for previews Headless WordPress already existed, and most of the solutions sacrificed the experience for the publisher.   The solution we came up with enabled the same experience the publisher is used to with previewing posts in WordPress site and instead using Headless WordPress..   The hackathon was day, and when we demonstrated it to the rest of WP Engine we received ton of positive feedback and questions from people within the company.   Since the hackathon we have gone down the road of putting together framework that makes it easier to build Headless WordPress sites with three key principles in mind.   WordPress should be the data store and content engine and, to the greatest extent possible, we should allow the frontend to determine the presentation..   Read more