WordPress REST API as a Back-end with React and Docker (Part 1)

• Docker Compose

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First of all I wanted to set up the development environment, before I took a look at any code. The current version of WordPress requires PHP version 5.4, but it is no longer supported, so PHP v7+ is probably a better choice to go with. I also needed to have a MySQL-compliant database, like MySQL Server or MariaDB. To keep things in sync and working within the same virtual network, I decided to use Docker Compose, which is a nice little utility built on top of Docker, that helps organising and connecting images that are related. Compose uses YAML as the format of its configuration, which is sort of easy to work with and is pretty clear on what it does. It follows Docker’s naming convention for most things. At this point I also decided to work with the basic wordpress image from DockerHub, which is a community where you can get a ton of pre-made images from. For the data image I picked the mysql image.

• InfluxDB

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