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WordPress Plugin Boilerplate with Support for Autoloading and Namespaces

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Plugin Boilerplates are a great way to start developing without having to rewrite standard code. They also ensure that all your plugins are consistent with respect to layout and coding practices. The WordPress Plugin Handbook lists best practices to develop WordPress plugins. Among these are a few Boilerplate Starting Points that you can use instead of writing your own. I particularly liked the one by DeninVinson but without support for namespaces, one could end up with a lot of …

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Mounting Loopback 4 Rest API in Express with Winston Logging

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Download the working example from my Github repository here. The Loopback team recently included the express-composition example for mounting the Loopback 4 Rest API in a regular Express application. See the full tutorial to do this on their official page here. So, you can do something like this - This also allowed adding Express style middleware before passing control to the Loopback application. It is especially useful for adding Express middleware to check access tokens, …

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Using Custom Workbox Service Workers with Create-React-App (without ejecting, no third-party libraries)

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Currently, there's no way to add a custom service worker with the Workbox InjectManifest plugin in create-react-app (2.x). There are a few solutions floating around, but if you don't want to eject, here's a simple way to add Workbox to your Create-React-App (2.x) workflow. The Issue: This PR would allow adding custom configurations to the built-in service worker that uses the GenerateSW plugin in create-react-app 2.x (cra). However, among many other things, the default Workbox GenerateSW …

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Integrating a Vue SPA with WordPress

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Check out my article about creating a Single Page App in WordPress with VueJS on the WPMU Dev blog. I’ll walk you through the entire process of building a Vue app from the ground up, interacting with the WordPress REST API and creating a search app with Vue’s reusable components. …

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Write Your Own Advanced Search WordPress Plugin with Autosuggest

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In this article, I'll show you how you can build your own advanced WordPress Search Plugin with support for autosuggest, custom post types, taxonomies, custom fields, and caching from the ground up. …

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