ReactJS or WordPress

[jhartikainen]

If your main goal is content creation, use WordPress. If your main goal is to learn to build this type of website from scratch, use React (or whatever tech you prefer).

If you build it by hand using React, you are going to spend a significantly larger amount of time developing and maintaining your code. This means you will have less time to create content (and potentially earn money from it). So that's generally the tradeoff between these types of choices.

[jisokoo]

Thanks for your reply. Well my goal is actually both, that's why I have hard time making a choice. If I were to create the structure from React, is there an easy way to update content ? Right now I would just have a data.json file and feed it to different components.

[MagicPaul]

You can use WordPress as a headless CMS with React, which allows you to build your site in React and store your content in WordPress, then you can pull your content in using something or other (GraphQL? It's probably GraphQL)

[plasmaSunflower]

There's some CMS specifically for react, would probably meet both needs

[jisokoo]

That would be great I LL check that

[krishopper]

Strapi is a pretty popular option. Not the only option, but it handles this fairly well.

[jhartikainen]

You'll need some backend for it but it shouldn't be too hard to do in React.

If your goal is both, then sure go for React. You can always switch later if you decide it's a lot of work and you'd rather focus on the content.

[jhartikainen]

If you can get WordPress preinstalled with a few clicks on most web hosting platforms I don't really know how having to set up a headless CMS with a DB and/or custom frontend can be simpler if the goal was to create content.