Building a Realtime Status Page using the combined power of Gutenberg and Firebase
Serverless and real-time databases open up experiences WordPress alone can't deliver. Builds a status page end to end: a Gutenberg block for updates, a serverless function to post them via a Slack command, and a real-time database pushing changes to every visitor live — with zero load on the WordPress server.
Modern infrastructure technologies like serverless computing and real-time databases offer a huge potential for new and improved online user experiences.
In this session, we’ll go through a practical use case to find out how we can harness their power in the context of WordPress.
We’ll build a Gutenberg block that shows status updates, to be incorporated into a status page. We’ll use serverless computing to allow adding status updates via a Slack command, and we’ll use a real-time database so that all visitors receive these updates in real-time without any impact on our WordPress server.