howdy
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Overview
Howdy is a starter kit for building WordPress plugins with modern development practices, featuring PSR-4 autoloading, code style checking for PHP and JavaScript, dependency scoping to avoid conflicts and React-based admin interfaces. It helps developers ship fast by providing pre-configured tools like Composer, PHP-Scoper, ESLint and WordPress scripts, requiring only PHP 7.4+, Composer and Node.js 20+.
Features
psr-4-autoloadingcomposer-integrationphp-code-snifferphp-scopereslintwordpress-scriptsreact-admin-interfacegutenberg-blocksasset-compilationfile-watchingproduction-buildtranslation-pot-generationnamespace-prefixingplugin-distribution
Feature Flags
userDashboardi18ngutenbergBlocks
Recommended Use Cases
wordpress-plugin-developmentgutenberg-block-creationwordpress-admin-interfaceplugin-distribution
Frontend
reactjavascripteslint
Backend
phpcomposer
Auth Providers
None
Deployment Targets
wordpress
Payment Providers
None