Create React WP Theme

Up To Date!

Apr. 15, 2020


Facebook recently released v3.4.1 of Create-React-App.

And now create-react-wptheme is up-to-date.

If you have a theme made with an earlier version of create-react-wptheme and want to update it to the latest code, just follow these instructions.

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Getting Started

Michael Soriano is writing a tutorial for creating a theme using React. He uses create-react-wptheme for the initial setup. He provides a lot more detail than this readme and the screen shots are really helpful.

Check it out:


Let's build a WordPress theme with React: Part 1 (Setup)

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See the full README on Github.

Goals

- Remove WebPackDevServer and use your WordPress dev server instead.
- Also, do not proxy the WordPress server.
- Thus removing CORS as a concern.
- Maintain feature parity(ish) with create-react-app
- Touch the original react-scripts as little as possible.
- Add new files where possible.
- This will make merges easier.

Acknowledgements

I'm grateful to the authors of existing related projects for their ideas and collaboration:

- create-react-app

The original.

- filewatcher-webpack-plugin

I used this as an example for writing my own plugin for watching changes to the create-react-app "public" folder.

License

Create React WP Theme is open source software licensed as MIT.