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This Week at WordPress.org (January 24, 2022)
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This Week at WordPress.org (January 24, 2022)

ByCourtney Robertson
Each week we are highlighting the news from WordPress.org that you don’t want to miss. If you or your company create products or services that use WordPress, we’ve got the news you need to know. Be sure to share this resource with your product and project managers. News Released: WordPress 5.9 Josephine. (Matt Mullenweg) Preliminary…

Backbone.js, Underscore.js and why they matter for WordPress

ByBrian Krogsgard
WordPress is transforming and you may not even know it. The project’s largely been a PHP driven framework. According to Github, the code itself is around 85% PHP and 15% JS in WordPress 3.5. In the future, JavaScript is likely to make up a majority of the project’s code. And Backbone.js and Underscore.js have a big part of that shift. We should get ready for the change, and learn how to use these new tools.
A Day of REST is going to Boston
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A Day of REST is going to Boston

ByBrian Krogsgard
The second A Day of REST conference will be in Boston, Massachusetts. The event will cover the WordPress REST API in-depth, with talks and workshops from leaders in the community. It will be co-organized by Human Made and Post Status.
How Do We Get There From Here?
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How Do We Get There From Here?

ByDan Knauss
Our WordPress Podcast and Video Picks for the Week of June 13 🎙️ JavaScript development journeys • Questions coming out of WCEU • The WordPress toolkit for podcasters • How newcomers and outsiders view WordPress • Are WordPress developers “real developers?” • Gutenber changes • Dave Martin on WP.com • A Gutenberg roadmap for WordPress 6.1.

Even the best of us struggle…

ByBrian Krogsgard
Even the best of us struggle to learn new concepts. I highly recommend taking a few minutes to read this post from Brad Frost about his efforts to learn React. I do share Brad’s concern that JavaScript is consuming front development to the point that there’s a risk of “hard-won HTML/CSS best practices” suffering as…

WordPress 5.0 adds many new bundled…

ByBrian Krogsgard
WordPress 5.0 adds many new bundled script handles, and Andrew Duthie shares some tips about them that will serve as a reference for developers. Andrew’s post covers WordPress-specific JavaScript code, newly added vendor dependencies, and more.