JavaScript Chat Summary: December 10, 2019

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 (agenda, Slack Transcript).

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Follow-Up: JSDoc Guidelines

(Slack conversation, previous meeting summary)

Proposed JSDoc guidelines were merged since the last meeting. They are available in a readable format in its own section in the Coding Guidelines for 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/.

Discussion:

In the previous week, we talked about having some new conventions to support what we need for the types effort summarized in the tracking issue on GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/.

@aduth shared that as he’s been working through these tasks (PR for Priority Queue package), he’s already found a few other things that might be worth contemplating. He has a sense this could be an evolving standard or at least a need for some additional clarity in specific cases as noted in the agenda:

• Explicit recommendation on types capitalization ({Object} vs. {object}).
• @see vs. @link correctness – the current guidelines are mistaken in treating @link as a non-inline tagtag A directory in Subversion. WordPress uses tags to store a single snapshot of a version (3.6, 3.6.1, etc.), the common convention of tags in version control systems. (Not to be confused with post tags.).

The eslint-plugin-jsdoc pluginPlugin 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 we now use in Gutenberg has most of the “defaults” we had already been preferring for some time. The point is to make this explicit in the recommendations, as well.

Prettier

(Slack conversation)

There were proposed revisionsRevisions The WordPress revisions system stores a record of each saved draft or published update. The revision system allows you to see what changes were made in each revision by dragging a slider (or using the Next/Previous buttons). The display indicates what has changed in each revision. to JavaScript Coding Standards for Prettier compatibility.

Discussion:

There have been a couple of comments on the post already. Still, they don’t seem to be directly relevant for what’s being considered in these revisions, and more to the quality of the document generally-speaking.

There is also this question of how we document the expected way of using Prettier. @aduth assumed there’s some need for editor integration or pre-commit script for these formattings to take effect. He also emphasized that when doing anything on that front, we should be preemptive about making this as minimally-disruptive as possible.

Actions:

• Let’s wait until next Tuesday to make any “decisions” since one day of soliciting feedback might not be enough.

Date Library in Gutenberg

(Slack conversation)

@davilera tried to use wp.date and encountered an issue, which somebody had already reported. We need some feedback on the proposed PR from those who worked on dates more closely in the past. In the current shape, the library is currently hard to work with, and therefore developers are forced to implement workarounds.

Open Floor

Currently, there is only simple support for blockBlock 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. scaffolding in WP-CLI that generates code that runs in the browser without the need for a build step. It’s documented here.

@gziolo ported this script to work with Node.js without the need to have an active installation of WordPress. The plan is to introduce the concept of templates and provide the default support for ESNext, JSX and all modern JavaScript tooling installed out of the box with the single command from CLICLI Command Line Interface. Terminal (Bash) in Mac, Command Prompt in Windows, or WP-CLI for WordPress.:

npm init wordpress-block

Bonus item:

https://react.christmas/

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