JavaScript chat summary, May 14th, 2019

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Below is a summary of the discussion from last 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 (ag e nda, Slack Transcript)

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Agenda: ReactReact React is a JavaScript library that makes it easy to reason about, construct, and maintain stateless and stateful user interfaces. https://reactjs.org/. 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. for Data

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We discussed an issue to introduce a useSelect React hook to the @wordpress/data package. The discussion focused on determining what the best APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. would be and a concern was raised to investigate the potential performance impact. We agreed it would be best to have a single useSelect function which allows to pass in a mapping callback for more complex conditional type use-cases involving multiple selectors/stores. We could create utility functions for simple cases.

Open floor: Node compatibility

The version of node-sass we use isn’t compatible with Node 12.x. A PR to update node-sass to a compatible version is now merged.

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Open floor: Node compatibility

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