Apps to WordPress content?
Did you know, that it’s possible to embed a React or Vue application onto a WordPress page? On an existing site, it’s easy with a custom plugin. We create the app, wrap it into a custom plugin, you install and activate the plugin as you would with any WordPress plugin, and use a shortcode to place the app where ever in the content you want to have it. Easy.
Why an app?
An application is a good and fast way to provide dynamic content, depending on user interaction, or execute some kind of a transaction with the user. Since the app runs on the browser, not the server, it’s really fast. The React or Vue app can read (and write) data from your site’s database, make queries to third party APIs, or both. An application is a modern way to create complete sites, for that matter, but also available to individual WordPress pages. We supply embedded React.js or Vue.js apps to your WordPress site.
Example application
The example shows a React app, embedded with a custom plugin, displaying newly registered companies in Finland for the past few days. The app is placed on this page with a shortcode written in an ordinary content field.
The app fetches the data from the patent and registration office’s API interface and lets you filter the results by three features. Querying third party API interfaces takes a few moments, depending the other end. Other than that, the app runs lightning fast, since it runs completely in the browser and has no need to go back to the web server to build page content.
As you can see, the app does not in any way visually stand out from the rest of the content on the page. Unless you want it to.
As you also can see, the app can be localized. Switch to the Finnish version of this page and the same app will run in Finnish.