Little background: I need to build a e-commerce website for tire shop. They need to fetch currently available products from third party API (JSON) and display it on the website. They also need a search option for tires, like searching by width, dimensions and profile (and possible search by numberplate, but they are not sure).
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So, I have a bit of experience React.js and with wordpress (build a few websites with pagebuilder Elementor with few adjustements in css and functions.php) and I’m thinking of building this website on WordPress REST API with woocommerce (to handle the e-commerce side of things, plus I can use Stripe as checkout). Owner currently pays for hosting for another website. On the same hosting provider he bought a domain name. I’m not sure how the hosting works but from what I can see I can only host a wordpress website. So since the domain name is already there I can create and host wordpress website on that domain name and fetch data from REST API to use it in React app that will probably be hosted somewhere else.
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What I’m not so sure about is SEO side of things. I know a little bit of react (build a simple website, weather app and a calculator) and from what I know react doesnt render the HTML structure, so thats bad for SEO. I’ve been told that I can use next.js to fix this issue but I’ve never used next.js. I also seen in this video tutorial you can you Fortity for wordpress but I’m not entirely sure how it works and what it does. I want this website to have as little maintainance as possible, because I only get paid to create it, not maintaine it.
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Edit: I noticed that I can use FTP on the hosting service provider. Can I host react app there?
Also, Frontity says that it generates HTML serverless on the fly. Has anyone used it? Any tips?
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