Using Intertia.js with WordPress server-side

Has anybody tried, or is it against nature? 😅

I am thinking of a WordPress theme where the PHP templates fetch their data from the DB using standard WordPress API (get_post, WP_Query…) and then call Inertia::render().

I guess it would be faster than using WordPress REST APIs from the client…

Thank you! Guido

[boxybird]

@coccoinomane Your thoughts on using get_posts() with Inertia::render() are right on the money. It’s 100% possible. I built a WordPress plugin that does just that, and more: https://github.com/boxybird/wordpress-inertia-plugin

A little demo using the plugin: https://github.com/boxybird/wordpress-inertia-demo-theme

@lkraav I agree

It’d probably be prudent to discuss JS-rendering SEO implications in another forum, since at minimum, SEO is not even required for some (intranet) apps. Let’s keep this issue for the actual integration implementation concern.

Plus, the SEO discussion wouldn’t be WordPress specific. The same challenges exists when using Inertia with Laravel and Rails.

[lkraav]

So yeah, I tend to agree with some of the comments here that suggest using Inertia with WordPress (should it even be possible) isn’t probably a great idea, because of the lack of server-side rendering.

❓ I’m not sure what “lack of server-side rendering” means here. As far as I can tell, WP is nothing but a server-side rendered app 😃

Can we keep this issue open for a while longer, so more interested parties could find it better? I still have a hunch there’s a way to make it work.