William has worked with WordPress for over a decade. For the most part that meant writing a lot of PHP, with a bit of JavaScript sprinkled in and usually powered by jQuery. But with the arrival of Gutenberg, the future of WordPress is in JavaScript.
In this session, William will walk through how he navigated the transition of writing mostly PHP to more modern JavaScript and show you that it’s nothing to be scared of.
It will cover:
- How he was able to wrap his head around the general differences in the languages
- Some basics of tooling and build processes
- Working with React and starting to build things with Gutenberg