The Hybrid Experiment: Merging Node.js, WordPress, and React
summary
Attempts to serve a React front end from Node with Next.js server-rendered React proxying WordPress APIs and using Apollo for GraphQL hit authentication, preview, plugin, and page‑builder edge cases; Redis caching partially solves speed but introduces half‑page corruptions; project accumulates 27 GitHub issues and ~4,000 lines of tightly coupled code and gets abandoned. Final pragmatic wins: isolate apps on subdomains, build isolated React shortcodes as plugins, and use Elementor for marketing‑editable pages.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Start
- 1:24We'll start with The Origin Story
- 1:41Great Expectations
- 6:14Presentation Goals
- 6:30It started with a Theory
- 7:45Our Solution
- 12:42Requirement Violations
- 20:58Project hybrid is taking vacation
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