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Will Johnston
Will Johnston
Will Johnston is a Developer Advocate on the DevRel team at WP Engine. He started coding when he was 10 years old, and began coding professionally at 15. He got his start working on an open source competency tracking tool for schools with Python and Zope. Will founded Covalence alongside Matt Landers, and served as CTO. At WP Engine, Will is excited to help make the headless CMS world a better place by helping others embrace headless and make the most out of new tools and technologies.
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JSNation Live 2021JSNation Live 2021
156 min
Building a Hyper Fast Web Server with Deno
WorkshopFree
Deno 1.9 introduced a new web server API that takes advantage of Hyper, a fast and correct HTTP implementation for Rust. Using this API instead of the std/http implementation increases performance and provides support for HTTP2. In this workshop, learn how to create a web server utilizing Hyper under the hood and boost the performance for your web apps.
backendnode.jsdeno
React Summit Remote Edition 2021React Summit Remote Edition 2021
114 min
Workshop: Mixing Content, Commerce, and SEO with Headless WordPress
Workshop
When working with Headless WordPress it can be daunting having to setup an e-commerce site. This workshop will take you through connecting a Shopify app with your WordPress site, linking your WordPress content to your Shopify products, building a React and NextJS frontend to show your products and posts, using Yoast SEO, and deploying your site to WP Engine’s Atlas platform.
wordpress
JSNation Live 2021JSNation Live 2021
27 min
Using the Proxy API for State Management
With so many libraries to choose from for state management, why not add one more? The ECMAScript Proxy API enables you to intercept and redefine how an object operates. Let's explore how you might use the Proxy API for state management!
state managementjavascript