WPGraphQL with Jason Bahl

In this episode, Fran and Jeff talk with Alexa Spalato, the co-founder of Gatsby WP Themes, a company focused on building out Gatsby themes made to work with headless WordPress. We learn how Alexa got involved in tech, discuss some of the details of the headless theme market, and get some updates about her future…

Drew Baker, technical director of Webby award-nominated web agency Funkhaus joins the podcast to talk headless. He talks about Funkhaus's experience deploying headless WordPress for clients with everything from WP GraphQL and Nuxt, how Drew's clients enjoy their fancy decoupled sites, and what might make headless more enticing to clients.  Drew's GitHub: https://github.com/drewbaker Funkhaus: https://funkhaus.us/ …

It's the first battle of the frameworks, as up and comer Next.js goes head-to-head with Gatsby. Matt, Will, and Kellen compare each framework's rendering options, plugin ecosystems, routing, and hosting options. Who will win this epic match-up?

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/

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

In this episode, Fran and Jeff talk with Chris Wiegman, the Engineering Manager of the team working on WP Engine's Faust framework. During this quarter, the Faust framework has undergone a massive overhaul and Chris spends some time sharing details on those updates: Moving from GQty to Apollo for data fetching  Implementing WP routing and…