Using Woocommerce as backend & ReactJS as frontend?

Question

Is it possible to use woocommerce as backend & ReactJS as frontend? I am new to creating online shops, and would like to write a frontend with ReactJS, but I am not sure what options there are for the backend.

I do know I can use Wordpress as a backend. Can I also install woocommerce and use it as a backend on top?

Answer 1

WooCommerce provides REST API which you can use to power your frontend. However for that you need to provide consumer key and consumer secret to your frontend, which is not a good idea security-wise, so it is ideal to create a API proxy and make the frontend communicate with the proxy which then routes the calls to the actual API using the key and secret.