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Kent C. Dodds explains what JavaScript features you should be familiar with when you’re learning and using React. Kent covers array methods, promises, async/await, template literals, and more.
Chrome now has native lazy-loading for images and IFrames. There are already several good explanations of how this works and how to adjust your markup. An initial Trac ticket for lazy loading in WordPress core exists, and it was mentioned in a recent WordPress core JavaScript developer meeting. 💤
If you do JavaScript development, then you might enjoy this piece from Joe Eames on why the import statement is so confusing. 😕
WP Shout introduces you to using async and deferred JavaScript in their latest tutorial.
Rich Tabor shows how you can conditionally load front-end JavaScript for Gutenberg blocks. Rich walks you through some checks for specific blocks on a page using methods drawn from his own plugins.
Want to use Express to build a Node.JS server to proxy the WordPress REST API? Josh Pollock shows how you how. Express is a JavaScript routing system that is very popular for server-side JavaScript applications. I learned a few things about it from Josh’s post.
David and Olivia Bisset sat down for a chat with Matt Mullenweg about open source, Tumblr, and how Matt deals with negativity. Matt has three roles today: CEO of Tumblr, CEO of Automattic, and project lead for the next release of WordPress. He shares what went wrong with post formats and what he would love to acquire next if he could. The answer may (or may not) surprise you! Recorded shortly before WordCamp Europe 2022.
