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I’m Back WordPress, I missed you! So Long Hugo, Hello JAMStack!
My career, and development as an engineer, can be followed through the evolution, redesign, and rebuilding of this site — www.jackreichert.com. Initially I launched on shared WordPress hosting, and built on top starter themes. It was rudimentary, but it worked, and I got my first full-time tech job with those skills. As I learned systems…
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Announcing the new ISDA.org
I’m the Director of Web Development at ISDA, a trade organization whose goal is to make the global derivatives markets safer and more efficient. I started there a little over 6 years ago, just after they had launched a new site. The design was contemporary for its time. The codebase was built on top of…
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A React + Redux WordPress Theme — Version 2.0
It’s that time of year again. I’ve updated this theme, which runs off my open theme + a few minor style tweaks. What’s new in v2.0? It’s all completely under the hood. So you’ll see nothing different here… But I’ll know. First, since I build the theme, react-router hit version 4 and changed everything. There…
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Developing A Theme for WordPress Using ReactJS, Redux, and the WP REST API
To being, check out the project here. This is a work in progress, but I got enough done this weekend that I’d like to share. I wanted to work on a project using ReactJS and Redux. I’ve heard a lot about it, and wanted to explore it on my own. I do that with every…
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SUPER Simple React webpack Tutorial, so you can start ‘Getting Started’
Update: This was written before create react app came out. Use that, it’s awesome. I was annoyed by how many people are trying to sound smart in their tutorials, and thus not really helping anything. I wanted a simple “Here is what you need to get started” tutorial and lost a day chasing rabbits down…