WordPress | Beginner-friendly WordPress plugin development using React JS

WordPress | Beginner-friendly WordPress plugin development using React JS

Setup of an npm project using cmd

npm init

Install the WordPress official package of scripts.

npm install @wordpress/scripts --save-dev

Change in package json

{
  "name": "tools",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "",
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "build": "wp-scripts build",
    "start": "wp-scripts start",
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
  },
  "author": "",
  "license": "ISC",
  "devDependencies": {
    "@wordpress/scripts": "^26.9.0"
  }
}

Create a file called webpack.config.js.

const defaults = require('@wordpress/scripts/config/webpack.config');

module.exports = {
    ...defaults,
    externals: {
        react: 'React',
        'react-dom': 'ReactDOM',
    },
};

Create a template and create the file name app.php (Path: templates/app.php).

<div id="raviya">
    <h2>Loading...</h2>
</div>

Create a project folder file with the name as project : tools.php

<?php

/**
 * The plugin bootstrap file
 *
 * Tools plugin
 *
 * @link              https://github.com/bhargavraviya
 * @since             0.0.1
 * @package…