JS Core Summary: 23rd June 2020

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@adamsilverstein hosted

today’s agenda: “Consider whether we should start using ESLint rules to recommend vanilla JSJS JavaScript, a web scripting language typically executed in the browser. Often used for advanced user interfaces and behaviors. functions”

@zebulan brought up that there are a lot of Lodash functions that provide little benefit over native JS equivalents, and in a lot of cases, the only difference is how nullish values are handled.
@adamsilverstein provided for reference: https://github.com/you-dont-need/You-Dont-Need-Lodash-Underscore After discussing concerns, it was concluded that most issues were about style rather than dependencies. Action Item: Zeb will open an issue on the 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/ repository proposing specific linting or prettier rules.

open floor:

@gziolo shared a PR, to make registration of component related filters to work nearly the same as you would do it now for SlotFill. https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/22185 https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C5UNMSU4R/p1592921896081600

Adam & Grzegorz discuss the details of the PR, which includes the differences of filters and SlotFill. Side questions bring up the Gutenberg equivalent to php WordPress 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. (actions & filters). It was, also, mentioned how we could we register blocks as components.

@zebulan brought up the topic: Thoughts on usingTypeScript in WP?
It was mentioned that there is currently support for it. The way we’re doing that now is through JSDoc comments, which the TypeScript compiler parses.
eg https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/18942
#18942 Build: Output package type declarations
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/18838
There is also recorded stream where @aduth shows how to add types to WordPress package.

Announcement:
@gziolo shared: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/22714 – we should see Gutenberg Mobile merged into Gutenberg repository later this week, which received a warm round of positive responses.
@gziolo continued, there are 3 new WordPress packages – private for now (no publishing to npm). The best part is that it will be possible to run the demo apps (iOSiOS The operating system used on iPhones and iPads. and Android) inside Gutenberg.

@adamsilverstein closed meeting on the hour

#core-js, #javascript, #meeting-notes

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