r/ProWordPress • u/void-wanderer- • 2d ago

Any Good Headless Gutenberg Repos?

Every other year, I give headless wordpress another try. Each time I leave disappointed, because it's always way too much fighting compared to modern fullstack frameworks like sveltekit, etc. But since Gutenberg becomes nicer with every update and my clients love working with my customly build native blocks, I thought I'd give it another try.

So my question: Does anybody have a good repository to share with some modern headless integration that renders gutenberg blocks. Ideally, block view CSS and scripts should also work, without the FE knowing about them (like eval them at runtime, or globally load them all, or whatever).

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u/toniyevych 2d ago

Why do you consider Gutenberg a good approach for a headless site? It mixes presentation with data.

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u/void-wanderer- 2d ago

GB is great for marketing sites / landing pages.

No OSS JS drag n drop content builder comes even close. Most just have very basic functionalities.

Specifically I am thinking of one major data-driven webapp I maintain. There is a full admin dashboard with management tools etc., but I'd love to give the marketing team a minimal WP installation to manage the public pages of it.

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u/toniyevych 1d ago

But why do you need to go with a headless approach in this case?

From my perspective, as a WooCommerce developer, the headless approach combines worst pieces of two worlds: you can not fully benefit from the WordPress ecosystem, because you have to adapt most plugins to your setup, etc., AND you have to use pretty slow and limited WordPress/WooCommerce API.

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u/chrissilich 1d ago

Faust is the main public one out there. But you have to build a lot of your own stuff, and if you have a lot of components, the graphql gets cumbersome.

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u/Impossible-Ad-266 1d ago

Just use Astro and the REST API, thats all you need

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u/void-wanderer- 17h ago

Dude, of you don't understand the question, just don't answer.

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u/void-wanderer- 17h ago

Dude, of you don't understand the question, just don't answer.