ReactPress – Create React App for WordPress

1. 

   Empty admin view.

2. 

   The new React app is created.

3. 

   The local React dev server is running on port: 3000. Every change will hot reload immediately.

4. 

   The React app is deployed on the public server.

3.2.2

• Update the React dev environment even if the ReactPress app is on a private page. Thanks to @BlairCooper
• Improve compatibility with non-standard WordPress configurations like Bedrock. Thanks to @dylanlawrence
• Improve security

3.2.1

• Removing extra script tag when using vite – thanks to @dylanlawrence
• Using ABSPATH for the document root

3.2.0

• Support React apps with Vite (other kinds of frontend frameworks coming soon)
• (Very) basic support for more than one app on one page.

3.1.0

• Make sure that pages of all states (private, draft) are shown.
• Improve user feedback when something goes wrong during index.html update.
• Don’t write empty content to index.html if page download did not work.
• Add css as late as possible to ReactPress page, to reduce !important in app’s css.
• Add information about the post into reactPress variable
• Automatically update the app list without the need to reload the page

3.0.1

• Allow child pages to be ReactPress pages, where a React app is embedded.
• Add support for hosts that have turned the php.ini setting allow_url_fopen to off.
• Don’t delete options when uninstalling plugin.

2.1.3

• Use relative file names for templates, to allow different folder configurations. Thanks to https://github.com/BlairCooper.
• Improve system requirements

2.1.2

• Don’t show encrypted user password on frontend.
• Improve Windows compatibility

2.1.0

• Add totally empty canvas template. This template doesn’t get any styles and scripts from WordPress. Good if you want to embed a totally independent React app.
• Add nonce and base rest_url to global ReactPress variable.
• Fix loading of global ReactPress variable.
• Improve Windows compatibility
• Securtiy fix: don’t show encrypted user password

2.0.1

• Improve Windows compatibility

2.0.0

• Add an app to an existing page
• Make client-side routing optional, thus allowing child pages of a React app
• Improve documentation
• Use a React app in more than one page
• Revamp the admin page to be cleaner and a React app itself
• Add PHP namespaces
• Use create-react-app in the admin area for dogfooding
• Add post state label to signal the user a page was created by ReactPress
• Test with WordPress 6.0.2

1.3.2

• Swap file_get_contents for wp_remote_get.

• Create custom routing for react-router based on slug of the reactpress page.

• If the folder of an app is deleted, it is shown as type: Orphan

1.3.0

• Move apps directory to wp-content/reactpress/apps to don’t mess with the created app when updating the plugin.

• Remove possibility to create new react apps from the admin. From now on there is only the command line workflow.

1.2.1

• FIX: Template incompatibility with Elementor and some other plugins. Thank to the great answer of Sally CJ https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67696139/error-in-wordpress-with-plugin-reactpress/68455647#answer-67751220

• FIX: Problems if document root and plugin app directory are on the same machine/server/locationn

1.2.0

• Revamp the process of adding using ReactPress. Don’t start the react app anymore, only update the index.html from WordPress admin. Make it possible to add apps manually with npm or yarn.

• Add fallback if we can’t find the plugin directory programmatically.

1.1.0

• Test with WordPress 5.7

• Insert the current user object to the global window object in Javascript, to have it accessible without a call to the API.

• add .env with CHOKIDAR_USEPOLLING=true to ensure watcher works with VM

• Use npm instead of yarn.

1.0.0

• Check for if it allows shell_exec and exec

• npm -v >= 6.0.0 is reachable from WordPress

• Find out if we are in a Windows environment

• Deploy app to production

• Add TypeScript/template support

• Delete app

• Build app

• Extend index.html in React app to look like WordPress site

• Create new React app

• Add React app in specified page