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We close out the year with Lee Robinson, the director of developer relations at Vercel. Lee talks about the current Next.js landscape within headless development, Rich Harris joining Vercel to work on SvelteKit, and whether Vercel will shift their frontends more towards SvelteKit. Headless WordPress resources:https://developers.wpengine.com Links:  https://leerob.io/blog/career https://leerob.io/blog/hypergrowth https://vercel.com/blog/vercel-welcomes-rich-harris-creator-of-svelte

Alex Moon stops by to hype Gatsby 4. How did Gatsby 4 an up to 10x rendering speed? How is Gatsby future-proofing against React? They also talk about how well Gatsby plays with Faust.js. Links:  What's new in Gatsby 4 Rendering patterns podcast episode Want more headless content? Go to https://developers.wpengine.com/

Kellen and Grace bring in WPEngine's new Developer Relator Brian Gardner, Founder of StudioPress, Co-creator Genesis, to talk about building development communities.  Links: briangardner.com Twitter @bgardner

The De{Code} podcast welcomes our new host, Grace Erixon. Kellen and Grace talk about Grace's development history.

Will bids the De{Code} podcast adieu and reflects on his headless development journey.

The DevRel team invites JSON Bahl back onto the pod to discuss Gutenberg. Jason talks about the benefits of Gutenberg, what's lacking in Gutenberg's current implementation, and what implementations exist for rendering Gutenberg in headless WordPress. Links: Gutenberg and Decoupled Applications

Solutions Architect Alex Moon stops by the De{Code} pod to talk rendering in front-end development.  Links: The When and Where of Rendering React's server components Netlify's Distributed Persistent Rendering (DPR)

Will and Kellen give their predictions and dreams for Next.js conference 2021. What will happen on the 5th anniversary of Next.js? Increased support for Core Web Vitals? Support for Deno? What about running the Next.js API at build time?

The Atlas Content Modeler teams hop on the pod to discuss the new open-source tool.  Links: Github: https://github.com/wpengine/atlas-content-modeler https://developers.wpengine.com/blog/what-is-atlas-content-modeler

Kellen and Will welcome Phil Crum from the Web Agency 10up.  They discuss whether 10up plans to go all-in on headless WordPress over traditional, how the discovery phase with a client determines whether headless is right for them, and using Gutenberg in a headless architecture. Links: Phil Crumm website: https://philcrumm.com/

Have you ever heard of Core Web Vitals? Kellen and Will teach you all the basics, including how to get a good Core Web Vital score, Largest Contentful Paint, First Input Delay, and Cumulative Layout Shift. They also break down how to measure your website against Core Web Vital principles and what tools could help…

Kellen and Will give a crash course in styling for the web. They go over traditional CSS, SASS, and CSS -in-JS. They also discuss how front-end frameworks account for styling and where UI libraries such as Charka and Material fit into the modern web.

Kellen interviews Greg Rickaby, Director of Engineering at WebDevStudios. Greg explains why WebDevStudios embraced headless development (1:30), how an open-source contribution to Next.JS lead to the creation of  WebDevStudios' Next.JS starter kit (9:30), and how WebDevStudios' might utilize Atlas and other technologies in the future (1:13:12). Links: Greg’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/GregRickaby Blog post: Building the Next.js…

Kellen and Will welcome Jacob Arriola from Zeek to discuss Headless WooCommerce. Jacob tells us why WooCommerce over other e-commerce solutions such as Shopify (4.18), how WPGraphQL and WooGraphQL can be used together (19.10), and the experience of building an e-commerce site the headless way and what tradeoffs had to be made to accommodate WooCommerce…

The team announces the new open-source WP Engine Headless WordPress framework, Faust.js ™. Upcoming Event:Learn how to set up, build, and deploy your headless WordPress site with Faust.js and Atlas – https://events.wpengine.com/event/092db3a9-7e28-41d2-ad7e-cbb16e653eb2/websitePage:5bbe0ca6-fd0c-4e77-b99b-de21baff9062 Resources: Faust.js site: https://faustjs.org/ Faust.js docs: https://developers.wpengine.com/docs/faustjs/next/getting-started Faust.js Git Repo: https://github.com/wpengine/faustjs