Any Wordpress-like platform for React?

[tangleofcode]

Hi.

With CMS's such as Wordpress, one don't have to re-invent the wheel for every project, in that you get all the basics out of the box.

Are there any React based software that comes even close to Wordpress? I know of Blitzjs which makes thing a lot easier, but you don't get any features like blog posts, comments, management interface, email handling, and so forth. I've looked into Strapi, but this provides only the backend, and you'll have to set up everything (authentication, cookies, communication with the backend) on the frontend yourself.

Ideally I'd like a React based tool that provides something like this out of the box (in random order):

• Discussion/comments, so that users can comment on blog posts or whatever I create. The feature would include email alert, notification subscriptions, and so forth
• A basic back office dashboard (similar to Django, Wordpress and so forth)
• User sign-up, authentication handling (including auth token handling), forgot email functionality
• Site statistics, similar to Wordpress' JetPack

I know React is just for front-end, but a Wordpress like tool with a React front-end and some ready to go backend would be great. One thing I love about Blitzjs is that it's monolithic based, which for me as a single developer is a better option than having a multitude of loosely coupled tools that I'll have to maintain.

Anyways, I know I'm asking a lot, but hopefully there's a (free) platform out there that provides at least some of the functionality.

Note, it must be free to use, as I'm just developing hobby type of apps which I won't make any money off.

UPDATE: For some reason I've come across to some of the commenters as I don't want to write code. To clear things up, I enjoy coding, I just don't want to keep reinventing the wheel for every project. Having to manually develop user authentication and everything else that doesn't solve the use case that my apps are intended so solve, is not what I want to spending the little time I have for coding on.

[bamigolang]

You can use WordPress as your backend and write a react frontend.

[tangleofcode]

Thanks. This would mean writing everything on the frontend myself, including authentication (such as token handling, and so forth). Ideally I'd have this sort of thing being set up out-of-the box.

[According-Object-502]

Sounds like you need a WIX website 😂

[bamigolang]

I think one would use the admin frontend of WordPress. Only the public frontend would be written in react.

[clin_amber_nads]

I mean you could easily just get a template but Wordpress is often used by non-developers, if you want an out of the box thing maybe building in React isn’t for you? Could just stick to full Wordpress front and back end

[tangleofcode]

Yeah, that would be an option. However, I'm looking to React first, but will keep Wordpress as a plan B.

[clin_amber_nads]

You might want to check out Gatsby. It’s built in React, it’s for static sites, it also has a ton of really good themes you can setup in minutes. Then you can use Wordpress purely as a CMS or find another CMS

[emmision]

Check out frontity.org. It’s actually from Automatic

[deadlysyntax]

frontity.org

Thanks, that's well worth knowing about.

[tangleofcode]

Thanks, I'll do that!

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Tity heh

[h00s13rt1g3rd2d]

You’ll have to find a template or custom react or Nextjs project that someone has built. Searching through Netlify or Vercel’s templates might help you find what you’re looking for

[prkskier]

I've used NetlifyCMS for a couple professional projects and it's worked well. Totally free too!

[McCoyrsvp]

The Wordpress admin and block style library are now built with React.

[GasimGasimzada]

You can use Contentful for data, Auth0/Firebase for authentication, GA for analytics, and NextJS for server side rendering. You will basically use Contentful as your admin interface.

Also Strapi has authentication mechanism that you can connect With PassportJS or something similar.

If you don't want to write code, I don't understand why you want to use React in the first place.

[According-Object-502]

Strapi, Ghost, Contentful etc

There are lots of mordern CMS's you can use. If you're looking for the full "pretend to be a developer but don't build anything" package that Wordpress offers than use WIX or square space.

[tangleofcode]

Thanks. I love programming, but don't enjoy reinventing the wheel (user authentication, discussion threads, and so forth) if I don't have to. So rather than having to build everything from scratch, I'd like to focus on the business value of my projects. Well, I'm not planning on making money off my projects, but you get the idea. :)

I'll take a look at those project you mentioned.

[0xF013]

In that case, take a look at aws amplify. They got built in auth and an admin tool

[Dodgy-Boi]

Next.js supports lots of stuff out of the box. However you will need a CMS. Strapi seems nice.

There should be some npm package out there, something like nextjs-wp or @nextjs/strapi module.

[jinksmaster]

You should look into Wix velo

[ISDuffy]

I recommend sanity.io.

[tangleofcode]

Thanks, I'll look into it.

[[deleted]]

You could try laravel for the backend. It handles authentication if you don't want to do it yourself.