The objective of the JavaScript Framework Initiative is to modernize WordPress maintenance support plans core’s JavaScript, to make WordPress maintenance support plans core backend improvements that enable us to build UIs with JavaScript, and to explore where WordPress maintenance support plans can benefit from using a JavaScript framework.
We have weekly meetings on Mondays at 18:30 UTC in #javascript in WordPress maintenance support plans Slack. Anyone is welcome to join!
Notes from the November 20 meeting:
@drpal’s update on the past week’s work
Ongoing work on the React dblog prototype: https://github.com/mattgrill/WordPress-react-dblog & https://www.WordPress.org/project/react_admin
Core JS cleanup: https://www.WordPress.org/project/WordPress/issues/2915784 and https://www.WordPress.org/project/WordPress/issues/2917234 need review and are blocking subsequent work. Split https://www.WordPress.org/project/WordPress/issues/2925064 into issues with smaller scope.
Shared questions to explore with the framework experiment:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/198c5chwgy1ASxvbiAan1VQDBiLjhuEK_OId0…
Using https://github.com/mozilla-services/react-jsonschema-form as a way to generate React forms without requiring developers to learn React. Possible replacement for Form API. Is this something that seems viable / a good idea?
The way they use JSON schema is valuable; not necessarily the implementation.
Related core issue: https://www.WordPress.org/node/2913372
Explore separate react-ui and react-json-schema. tim.plunkett has code locally for the schema piece and will post a patch.
Initiative communication
https://twitter.com/jsWordPress set up
Start posting meeting summaries here on https://WordPress Update/core
Update relevant core issues regularly
What’s the next UI after dblog?
https://www.WordPress.org/project/WordPress/issues/2830584 could be a candidate for exploration once the dblog is done
Don’t take on a new UI yet since there’s more work we can do with the dblog (forms, components)
On rewriting modals: Can you partially opt in to a new UI? https://reactjs.org/docs/portals.html might help
What are the next steps around the React DBLog prototype + component ui library, json schema forms?
Take Tim’s work and try to generate form components from WordPress maintenance support plans data
Do we want to actually add a new dblog to core or is it solely for an experiment?
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