use WordPress Rest API to build a web application

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Angular provides two ways to build your wordpress site/application

1. first choice is completely headless application i.e., you won't deal with wordpress dashboard at all. just fetch data required with the help of WP Rest API endpoints, and
2. an angular powered wordpress theme.

Can anybody tell pros and cons of each of the above listed steps

Im not good at angular, so any comprehensive information would be appreciated.

This is fully updated question,

Angular provides two ways to build your wordpress site/application

1. first choice is completely headless application i.e., you won't deal with wordpress dashboard at all. just fetch data required with the help of WP Rest API endpoints, and
2. an angular powered wordpress theme.

Can anybody tell pros and cons of each of the above listed steps

Im not good at angular, so any comprehensive information would be appreciated.

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• have you tried a e-commerce plugin like WooCommerce ? wordpress/plugins/woocommerce – mmm Commented Jun 15, 2018 at 21:15
• actually the web application is not woocommerce powered site. it's a fund raising site so user should be able to pay the amount they want from the site. Thanks for the reply – maverick Commented Jun 16, 2018 at 4:16
• This question could be helpful: Developing Themes with React/Angular – user141080 Commented Aug 13, 2018 at 6:35

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In general, if you want totally headless application, you should not use wordpress but JS, as with JS you will be able to reuse at least some of the code for both server and client sides.

As for using angular theme.... well the question is still why do you use wordpress at all as you will not get any of the benefits of using plugins to enhance the theme, so what is the added value wordpress gives you, an editor? some server side API you are used to work with? That might be a good enough reasons, but the mileage you will get out of wordpress will be considerably less compare to using a proper theme.