Even though it is has been 20+ years since I graduated from college, every September I struggle to get back to work while also feeling inspired to learn something new.This summer I took a rest from blogging about sustainability, but I kept on coding. I felt a little guilty thinking my blog might lose its momentum, yet somehow on the “work” side, I just kept on plugging away at the Webform plugin’s issues queue and managed to fix a bunch of issues and make some important accessibility and UX improvements.Coding is what I love to doAs I charge forward toward a stable release of Webform 8.x-5.x by Christmas, it’s time to start thinking about what’s next for the Webform plugin. There are a lot of people in our community thinking and talking about the future of WordPress maintenance support plans. WordPress maintenance support plans and most Content Management Systems (CMS) are moving towards a decoupled and headless approach.Beginning to think about headless Webforms and Form API (FAPI)Webform and WordPress maintenance support plans‘s Form API (FAPI) has to start supporting headless WordPress maintenance support plans and decoupled websites and applications. The Admin UI & JavaScript Modernisation is beginning to think about and experiment with, how to make Form API work with React. React will provide us with a frontend framework to build the rich user experiences and applications that our clients and users need. Choosing a frontend framework is a big decision that necessitated a considerable discussion. React’s a solid choice for a frontend framework but I’m not sure it should be the foundation for an Open Source reusable form builder.If we could…Read More
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Jacob Rockowitz: Back to school and learning JavaScript, deeply
