Monday Medley | Open Source for Beginners, Bootstrap Icons, and Using Frontity for Headless WordPress

Today is August 31, 2020, and for this Monday Medley episode
we're covering:


Open-Source for Beginners

Bootstrap Icons

Using Frontity for Headless WordPress



Let's dive in!


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One of the greatest parts of being a developer is using and
participating in open-source projects. But it can seem
intimidating for first-time developers to jump into a project. A
post yesterday on the DEV community goes through how to
contribute to an open-source project for beginners. It outlines
some basic skills you might need to get started and some initial
ideas for how to contribute.


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On Friday, Bootstrap released the first stable version of its
custom icons. With over 1,100 icons in the initial release, you
are bound to find the icon you are looking for. The icons are
SVG-based, which makes them very versatile in their utility. Read
more about Bootstrap icons from the release notes and the
documentation.


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Frontity allows for a headless version of WordPress with a React
front-end. This means that you can manage your website content in
WordPress and utilize the API functionality to create the
front-end using a modern front-end framework and features. On
Friday, LogRocket posted about getting started with Frontity,
which walks through the process of setting up a website with
Frontity. For those who love to use WordPress and build React
websites, it is the perfect combination.


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