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2:55 PM

@DᴀʀᴛʜVᴀᴅᴇʀ when I say the header, I'm talking in a <head> sense, not a Logo bar with a menu sense

DᴀʀᴛʜVᴀᴅᴇʀ

gotcha

everything that is visually seen in the browser can be react

or not be react, it's just an implementation detail

and there's already react powered frontends out there that are in WP themes

why are you building a a frontend entirely in React anyway

DᴀʀᴛʜVᴀᴅᴇʀ

getting into apps and wanted to re-build a few site playgrounds in WP and React. That way it will help me learn React more by using it

1 hour later…

4:26 PM

@MichaelEcklund Are you running ucwords() on all of your questions' titles? :P

lol no

I'm done now though

I was reformatting titles, formulating some as questions, adding tags, correcting anything real obvious in the body... like. code, lists, bolding colons, typos, etc.

For a moment I thought it's a bot. Man you were fast!

no, ya i just sat down and cranked it out. Was trying to get 80 edits for another badge. System hasn't given it to me yet!

wordpress.stackexchange.com/help/badges/12/strunk-white

Ya it takes a while. I don't know how to get the Peer Pressure badge though. Need 3 volunteers to downvote one of my questions :P

No cheating!

4:31 PM

I'm going to lose 6 rep here, I'm the one who is being cheated on.

You have to earn it, not get it handed to you on a bronze platter.

DᴀʀᴛʜVᴀᴅᴇʀ

cheater cheater

Cheater caught on tape!

Does anyone use composer to include something like Redux into their themes? I'm not sure how necessary is it to import a FontAwesome using npm when your project is like a kindergarten website with 10 views per day.

hmmm composer isn't known for its JS libraries

I'd use NPM

4:46 PM

Would using npm matter if you were the only developer of this small project?

if it makes your life easier

it might be that the only file that makes it into the theme is a jacks.bundle.js

just don't commit your node_modules folder, commit the npm package lock file instead

I always leave those for caching plugins. Autoptimize does the same with 1 click.

meh why waste CPU cycles in production when you can pre-package in advance

i'm not a huge fan of plugins that do things like that, better to have Nginx serve them in their final form as fast as possible

ttfb ftw

i used to compile my LESS stylesheets with WP LESS so I could insert PHP variables and dynamically recompile

but I switched since it was adding time and complexity to page generation, and I didn't really need that feature

I didn't think of resources as an issue since they were all like a bunch of 1MB themes. But will definitely try npm and composer once.