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A note on Gutenberg and React - WordPress Tutorial
From the course: WordPress: Workflows
A note on Gutenberg and React
- [Instructor] With the rollout of WordPress 5.0 and Gutenberg, the new block editor, a major portion of WordPress is now completely dependent on React JS, an opensource JavaScript Framework. While tools like ACF have been created to help you work with the block editor without having to learn React, as more of the WordPress Admin area becomes more dependent on it, the need to learn it becomes even more important. If you want to build your own blocks or customize the editor, native React is the best way to do so. And soon, widgets and parts of the customizer will come to rely on it as well. To understand React, you'll need to be familiar with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Specifically the ES6 version of JavaScript as well as Node and npm. You should have at least a foundational understanding of these before diving into React. There are also lots of courses in our library to help you. React.js Essential Training,…
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