Étienne Bélanger is a full-stack developer working @ District Web. He love WordPress and been working with it for more then 10 years. He has built custom themes, plugins, extensions of plugins. His experience range from small sites to large ecommerce multisites ecosystem. He loves learning new things everday. From WordPress to nodejs, from backend to frontend, he enjoy exploring new ways of making the web.
Étienne will be speaking at 9:00am on Saturday, July 13th in the Manotick room. His talk is entitled, Your First Headless WordPress Project with ReactJS and GraphQL.
With the revolution of Javascript in the past years combined with the greater need of mobile and super fast sites, new tools are out for developers. GraphQL is a new tool that replaces REST API’s. In this conference, we will look how to bring GraphQL into a WordPress development cycle.
How to build a headless theme using GraphQL and ReactJS.
This talk will give you the basic knowledge necessary to grasp this new tool and will leave you excited to discover more about it.