Below is a summary of the discussion from 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).
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Administrative: Meeting Hosts
@aduth announced he would not be able to host the next chats. @gziolo stepped in and volunteered to host some of the next chats.
Participants in the chat gave thanks to @aduth for hosting many meetings during the last years. Thank you @aduth!!
@gziolo mentions he is going to take three months leave starting in July. That makes us in need of volunteers to run the chats and take notes.
If you have some availability and want to help the next core Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.-js chats happen, please leave a note in the comments. Your help is much appreciated.
Prettier 2.0 upgrade
Prettier 2.0 major version upgrade has now been merged https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/22610.
The upgrade brings some code changes:
// Before
var doFoo = function() {}
// After
var doFoo = function () {}
There are not many of these cases in 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/ because we mostly use arrow functions. But @aduth referred we need at a minimum that the few code samples in the coding standards be updated to the new syntax.
@adamsilverstein volunteered to work on this task. Thank you!
ESLint 7 upgrade
@ocean90 has opened a pull request seeking to do a similar major version upgrade for ESLint, to v7.1.0. https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/22771.
@gziolo said the just needs testing, code-wise it looks great.
@ocean90 said we just need a final decision on how to proceed with the new warnings/errors and volunteered to fix as many errors as possible after the merge.
End-to-end test lifecycle utilities
We are facing a problem because the paired test lifecycle “set up” and “tear down” can be error-prone if managed manually as described in the issue https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/22804. The issue contains a proposal to create abstraction utilities that manage the full lifecycle.
Participants in the chat talked a little bit about the proposal. It was generally received well, and the conversations will continue on the issue. If you have some thoughts on the subject, feel free to check the issue and leave a comment or help implement the concept.
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