React WP Admin – Will Remove this plugin

React WP Admin plugin is a basic set up for building an admin facing page in React.js. ESbuild (a fast next-generation JavaScript bundler) has been used as a bundler.

GitHub link

https://github.com/dym5-official/react-wp-admin

Get started

1. Get a copy the of plugin, either by downloading from WordPress plugins repository or simply cloning git repository of the plugin.

2. The downloaded plugin will have react-wp-admin folder name. Rename it to your plugin name, also rename the file react-wp-admin.php to match your folder name.

3. Change the plugin information (in react-wp-admin.php) according to your needs.

4. Go to admin/react directory and install dependencies by running yarn.

5. Build commands

– yarn build – Production build
– yarn build:dev – Development build, generates sourcemaps
– yarn watch – Automatically runs yarn build:dev when files change

Note

Do not modify anything outside src in react folder if you are not confident. See the ESbuild docs to customize build outputs.