Use woocommerce rest api

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Hi,

I have heard the REST API based Woocommerce features are more performant than traditional woo approach. Introduction – WooCommerce REST API Documentation - WP REST API v3

Cwicly builder is working to implement on them. What do you think @matjaz ?

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Customizing WC is a pain because of the mix of data, layout and styling in templates and WC template functions. Dealing with API circumvents that by working only with data. But that creates a solution that is not compatible with the WC ecosystem of plugins and themes.

Not sure about performance - constructing a product list view or a shop landing page would require many API calls, with each API call loading WP, WC and fetching db data. When this happens in a normal PHP page view, this happens only once. That’s just my thinking, without measuring anything.

I think, as it is, PGWC gives a good compromise between using the official WC approach and giving flexibility.

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@matjaz Thanks for the detailed answer. I wanted to know what areas I need to use jquery with Pinegrow woo elements. I am not loading jquery on the cart and checkout page as I use the gutenberg woo official blocks which have no dependency for the same. I will use PG woo elements on the rest of the pages (product loop, single product). So will I need jquery on those pages? I don’t use the default woo photo gallery as we have a different custom field for photos and gallery.

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@Pinegrow_Learner

In this case you will only have to use jQuery on Single Product because WC scripts use it to power Add to cart functionality.

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Thanks @matjaz. Everything is working fine and smooth. I am also looking for a way to use custom cpt (non woo) to add products to woo cart. They have a price custom field. I tried a few solutions but they turned out messy and didn’t work well. Do let me know if you know any way to achieve this.

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@Pinegrow_Learner sorry, I don’t have any experience with this. So you want to add custom CPT into the Woo cart? Is that possible?

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@matjaz Yes. That’s what I want to do. It is possible but need to keep up with woo changes. php - woocommerce add custom post type to cart - Stack Overflow

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@Pinegrow_Learner the solution looks like a hack, it would be super hard to maintain compatibility with WC. My take is that WC is not built to be used with non-product post types. There are many checks for “product” === post->post_type in the WC code.

It would be better to extend the Product post type with the features you need, instead of getting WC to work with CPT.

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