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type: podcast
authors:
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  - brittney-postma
episode: 34
recording_date: July 7, 2022 2:15 PM
season: 2
published: published
podcast: CodingCat.dev
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devto: https://dev.to/codingcatdev/234-wpengine-and-faustjs-5fke
excerpt: Kellen breaks down how to use Faust.js to build your front-end applications with WordPress as the headless CMS.
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      name: 'SvelteKit+Supabase James Q Quick',
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start: August 3, 2022
title: WPEngine and FaustJS
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmoKJZg6PFY
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## Questions

1. Kellen can you give us some background on yourself?
2. How did you get started with WordPress and GraphQL?
   1. Why WordPress?
      1. Explain Headless WordPress
   2. Why GraphQL?
3. FaustJS - auth post preview - [https://faustjs.org/](https://faustjs.org/)
4. Demo
   1. [Atlas](https://wpengine.com/atlas/)
   2. [https://developers.wpengine.com/](https://developers.wpengine.com/)
