This is a cool initiative. I’ve been looking into headless for the better part of this year, mostly with Atlas from WP Engine. But so far I haven’t rolled out any ‘real’ projects with it.

The statements in the article about having to reinvent the wheel are totally true. Having a contact form with something like Gravity Forms is an absolute drag. Figuring out routing is difficult.

I’d have liked it more if this boilerplate would’ve used GraphQL instead of the Rest API. It’s so much nicer to work with when things get more complex! The biggest downside to GraphQL is that most plugins have no built-in support for it yet, although the community it quickly spewing out extensions to add that support.