Bradley Kirby released version 1.0 of his Wallace WordPress theme today. The theme is built using the WP REST API and Angular 2. Kirby has been working on Wallace for the past two years and has rewritten it several times in order to keep pace with changes in the REST API and Angular. If you view the Wallace demo, you’ll notice that the theme is super fast because the interface is rendered on the client side with JavaScript.
“It really opens a whole new world of possibility for WordPress themes,” Kirby said. “For this release I’ve primarily focused on smooth page transitions. That’s just not possible with the traditional server-rendered themes. But I think there’s a lot of really cool customization techniques that the API allows for, too. That’s what I’m hoping to explore next.”
Although React has emerged as the most popular JavaScript framework for front-end development in 2016, Kirby said he chose Angular mostly because he learned it first.
“I really like the prescriptive nature of Angular,” Kirby said. “There’s a ‘right’ way to do things that you’ll find in example projects and all
Source: https://managewp.org/articles/14062/wallace-a-free-wordpress-theme-built-on-the-wp-rest-api-and-angular
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