Proposal for Weekly Core JavaScript Chat

In last week’s coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. dev chat, @rmccue identified a need to coordinate on consistent approaches to common JavaScriptJavaScript JavaScript or JS is an object-oriented computer programming language commonly used to create interactive effects within web browsers. WordPress makes extensive use of JS for a better user experience. While PHP is executed on the server, JS executes within a user’s browser. https://www.javascript.com/. requirements. As the projects of this year’s focuses have more heavily leveraged JavaScript, a few specific needs have arisen:

  • Date handling (#39222)
  • Internationalization (#20491)
  • HooksHooks In WordPress theme and development, hooks are functions that can be applied to an action or a Filter in WordPress. Actions are functions performed when a certain event occurs in WordPress. Filters allow you to modify certain functions. Arguments used to hook both filters and actions look the same. (#21170)

To coordinate work towards a common goal for JavaScript in core, we are planning weekly Core-JavaScript meetings to take place in the #core SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. channel. Proposed times for the meeting are (weekly at): April 26, 2017 at 00:00 UTC, April 26, 2017 at 01:00 UTC or April 27, 2017 at 02:00 UTC. @adamsilverstein and @aduth were nominated to lead the effort.

Additional topics may include:

  • Media Manager extensibility (#40427).
  • Modernization of tooling, patterns, and frameworks to accommodate heavier usage of JavaScript.

Comment with your interest and availability for the proposed meeting times below.

#javascript