Building Web Apps with WordPress by Brian Messenlehner
This is a technical book about the inner-workings of the popular open source software called WordPress which powers over 30% of the websites on the internet.
Compare WordPress with traditional app development frameworks
Use themes for views and plugins for backend functionality
Get suggestions for choosing or building WordPress plugins
Register custom post types (CPTs) and taxonomies
Manage user accounts and roles, and access user data
Build asynchronous behaviors with jQuery
Use WordPress to develop mobile apps for iOS and Android
Integrate PHP libraries, external APIs, and web service plugins
Collect payments through ecommerce and membership plugins
Learn how to speed up and scale your WordPress app
Extend the WordPress REST API and create custom endpoints
Learn about WordPress Gutenberg blocks development