learning java script and wordpress rest api by tom hermans wordcamp netherlands 2016 - utrecht

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HOWDY, I'M

www.tomhermans.com@tomhermans

DESIGNER & DEVELOPERworked for

Yelo PlayTelenet's digital TV web platform

WHAT IS WORDPRESS ?IS IT A CMS OR .. ?

APPLICATION PROGRAMINTERFACE

set of standardized ways

which govern how other pieces of software can talk to aprogram and how it will respond

WP API’SXML-RPC & FRIENDS (ATOM..)

XML remote procedure call mobile app

ADMIN-AJAXlightweight routing layer

responds w/ JSON

RSSopen standard syndication format

THE WORDPRESS

REST API

RESTFUL API'STwitter

Instagram

Facebook

WordPress.com

Stripe, .. and many many more

REST : REPRESENTATIONALSTATE TRANSFER

communicate via HTTP

same HTTP verbs (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, etc.)

like web browsers use

to retrieve web pages and to send data to remote servers.

HTTP TO CRUDCREATE data : POST

READ data : GET

UPDATE data : PUT

DELETE data : DELETE

LEARN JAVASCRIPTDEEPLY, YOU MUST

‑ Yoda. or was it Matt ?

YOU DON'T LEARN TO WALK BYFOLLOWING RULES. YOU LEARN BY

DOING, AND BY FALLING OVER.

‑ Richard Branson

JAVASCRIPTISSEXY.COM

MVCModel ‑ View ‑ Controller

DEMO TIMEfrontend management via AJAX

Angular 1 WIP

Angular 2 REST API POC

this is a start, obviously different paradigm, different mindset, different useage, different tooling

USEFUL RESOURCES 

GOOGLE.COM: HOWTO LEARN JAVASCRIPT

USEFUL RESOURCES

Josh PollockRoy SivanWes BosTodd MottoJohn PapaMat Marquis ‑ JavaScript for Webdesigners

WP‑API (v2)Egghead.io (JS tuts)

WANNA TALK ? HIT ME UP LATER

www.tomhermans.com@tomhermans