JavaScript chat summary – November 20th

Below is a summary of the discussion from this week’s 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/. chat (agendaSlack transcript).

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We tried to keep the meeting succinct as many people are pushing out a GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ release.

Correcting Package Global Names

Relevant context in a previous Slack discussion. Question: Should we “deprecate” wp.escapeHtml to wp.escapeHTMLwp.tokenList to wp.TokenList?

There was a bit of a back and forth whether this should be something that is addressed now. At the end we concluded to add this to the list to address in a 5.0.x release.

Npm packages publishing workflow

From last week, we discussed this very briefly to keep it in our mind space. Link to the relevant issue on the Lerna repository.

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