Below is a summary of this week’s JavaScript 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 (agenda, Slack Transcript). Have a topic for discussion for the next meeting? Leave a suggested edit on next week’s agenda.
Closing the Loop The Loop is PHP code used by WordPress to display posts. Using The Loop, WordPress processes each post to be displayed on the current page, and formats it according to how it matches specified criteria within The Loop tags. Any HTML or PHP code in the Loop will be processed on each post. https://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop.: TypeScript
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Question: What decision do we arrive at based on the previous discussion and comments?
Context: It had been an agenda topic for a meeting last month to consider whether to maintain and accept pull requests proposing to include TypeScript definitions in the project. As previously discussed, it was generally agreed upon to not maintain these in the project. Additional time was allotted to allow for asynchronous feedback. Since then, the topic had not been revisited.
Decision: TypeScript definitions will not be maintained in the Gutenberg 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/ repository.
Follow-up: In an effort to support those who may find benefit in these definitions, we should at least consider documenting third-party resources.
Action items:
- Explain decision and close the related pull request. (Owner: @aduth)
- Open a new documentation issue to outline the desired resources, and invite those from the affected pull request to provide feedback as to what specific information would most benefit interested developers and require the least ongoing maintenance. (Owner: @aduth)
Future of Block Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. Registration
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An update was shared on a proposed Webpack plugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party discussed during the previous week’s meeting, which would help provide automation for the tedious and error-prone task of manually maintaining script dependencies. (Note: The pull request has since been merged)
Subsequent discussion was two-fold:
- Could this plugin be used to help solve the unanswered question around asset management for the ongoing Blocks Registration RFC discussion? And if so, what would that look like?
- There was some consideration about whether the manifest output by this tool, when used in combination with an explicit or implicit entry point to a block, could be sufficient to derive all necessary information to register and load a script and its dependencies.
- Would this or its impact on the Blocks Registration RFC impact (for better or worse) an existing issue with load order of scripts and the challenge it poses to plugins who seek to extend blocks?
- It was not considered to be directly related. However, there was some follow-up discussion about the use of filters generally, and whether the Blocks Registration RFC could have an impact in considering the registered block type to be aggregate of a series of patches (merging the block manifest, the client-side definition, and any third-party modifications).
- Action Item: Continue discussion on the associated issue.
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