The WordPress block editor was made the default editor for WordPress in December 2018. Adoption may have been slow at first, but the pace of development has increased exponentially. Today, custom blocks are at the core of extending WordPress. In Continue reading Two Ways to Create Custom WordPress Blocks
We weren’t here to report it in real-time, but on February 6, jQuery Core Team Lead Timmy Willison announced that jQuery 4.0.0 is now available in beta. jQuery 4.0.0 has been in the works for a long time, but it Continue reading Look Who’s Back: jQuery 4.0.0 Is Now in Beta
Bun is an all-in-one JavaScript runtime and toolkit created with the explicit goals of serving as a drop-in replacement for Node.js, eliminating separate layers of tooling, and speeding up the development experience. In this article, we’ll look at how Bun Continue reading A Short Guide to Using Bun
Code review is an integral part of the development cycle, with a direct impact on quality. Whether you’re focused on web, plugin, or theme development, thorough code review can help you improve your final product. In this article, we look Continue reading Getting the Best Results From WordPress Code Reviews
“Learn JavaScript. Deeply,” is good advice, but jumping right into the deep end when you’re first learning to swim may not be the smartest move. In this article, we’re going to get our toes wet by editing JavaScript right in Continue reading JavaScript in the Shallow End: Browser-Based React Native With Expo Snack
These days, React is one of the most popular JavaScript libraries. It can be used to create dynamic and responsive applications, allows for better performance, and can be easily extended. The underlying logic is based on components that can be Continue reading JavaScript Features You Need to Know to Master React
WordPress is one of the most popular content management systems (CMS), used by 810 million — that’s 41% of the whole internet! It’s the go-to choice for anyone who wants to quickly build a website because it’s simple, user-friendly, offers Continue reading How To Create a Headless WordPress Site With React.js
Overview This post outlines a proposal to add a script loading strategy enhancement to core’s existing Scripts API. The underlying goal of this effort is to make it easier for WordPress plugin and theme developers and core to use “modern” Continue reading Enhancing the Scripts API with a loading strategy
React has remained one of the most popular libraries for creating user interfaces when building web applications. It’s widely used by many companies and has an active community. As a React developer, understanding how the library works isn’t the only Continue reading React Best Practices to up Your Game in 2022
Multi-page applications (MPAs) are getting less popular by the day. Famous platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Github, and many others are already using single-page application (SPA) technology instead. This trendy technology allows users to engage with web applications speedily Continue reading How To Use Inertia.js in Your Laravel Projects
React UI component libraries are useful tools to help you create stunning interfaces for your React-based software applications and websites. Although you can write your own code for each feature or functionality you want to include in your design, using Continue reading React UI Components Libraries: Our Top Picks for 2022
The Performance API measures the responsiveness of your live web application on real user devices and network connections. It can help identify bottlenecks in your client-side and server-side code with: user timing: Custom measurement of client-side JavaScript function performance paint Continue reading An Introduction to the Performance API
This is a follow-up update to the post from last year: Publishing WordPress packages to npm. It’s worth reminding that we maintain a collection of over 80 npm packages under the WordPress organization. TLDR; We made WordPress packages publishing to npm Continue reading WordPress packages publish to npm every two weeks
Microservices and APIs are becoming famous everywhere in the software development space with the increasing need to produce scalable, secure, and flexible applications at faster turnaround times. Customer demands are changing rapidly, and they expect software solutions that can ease Continue reading Microservices vs APIs: Understanding the Difference
Businesses nowadays aspire to develop a high-quality web application within a short period of time. There are many JavaScript frameworks you can select from to implement a web application, and Vue and React are two of the top contenders. In Continue reading Vue vs React: Which One Should You Use?
It’s no secret that React.js has become widely popular in recent years. It’s now the JavaScript library of choice for many of the internet’s biggest players, including Facebook and WhatsApp. One of the main reasons for its rise was the Continue reading Learning How to Tame React’s useCallback Hook
Ever since I discovered how to configure PhpStorm with Xdebug for debugging, it’s been my go-to solution for hunting down difficult to reproduce bugs. What I didn’t know until very recently was that it’s also possible to debug JavaScript using Continue reading Debugging React, JavaScript, and PHP at the Same Time With PhpStorm
If you’ve spent any amount of time messing with PHP config files to get a file to upload, you know that uploading large files can be a real pain. You have to find the loaded php.ini file, edit the upload_max_filesize Continue reading Using JavaScript FileReader to Upload Large Files in Chunks and Avoid Server Limits
Recently I have been doing more animation work here at Delicious Brains Inc and finally decided to experiment with Airbnb’s rave-reviewed, Lottie framework. Lottie is a React Native, Android and iOS JavaScript library that makes it super easy to integrate Continue reading Getting Started with Lottie: An Overview of Airbnb’s Awesome Animation Framework
This week on the blog we’re going to talk about something I’m a big fan of: testing. Don’t fall asleep juuuust yet. If you’re like me, during development, you probably refresh your browser and click on buttons a million times Continue reading End-to-End Testing with Cypress