October 12, 2022 — This 2019 talk is a 52 minute workshop using React and Frontity to build a headless WordPress website.

November 3, 2020 — Blocks are the components of Gutenberg. Blocks are simply reusable easy to use components. While there are many libraries and core blocks available, sometimes you have to writes custom blocks to meet your client requirements. The knowledge of Gutenberg can really empower you to achieve even the complex functionalities and layouts in Gutenberg.

In this session, Imran (WordPress Developer at rtCamp) will demonstrate how to quickly write custom Gutenberg blocks with the help of available tools while explaining the States and attributes of the block and other concepts.

Meetup link
https://www.meetup.com/Colombo-WordPress-Meetup/events/274099459/

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November 3, 2020 — In this talk Pablo Postigo, co-Founder & CEO of Frontity, will give an introduction to the basics of Frontity Framework and what are the main challenges when developing a React frontend for a Headless WordPress.

In addition he will share his vision of the future of JavaScript in the WordPress ecosystem and also the story behind Frontity, with special attention to the key learnings from these years building the Framework.

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October 29, 2020 — React.js has become one of the most well-known and popular JavaScript libraries. WordPress rebuilt its WYSIWYG editor using React. Drupal recently adopted React to create admin interfaces.

This talk explains the basic concepts of React outside of the context of any particular CMS implementation. The examples help to understand React and why it is powerful. Learn how to convert a static site into a dynamic React application.

July 11, 2020 — React.js has become one of the top players in the JavaScript libraries world. WordPress has rebuilt its WYSIWYG editor using React. Drupal has recently adopted the library to create admin interfaces. This session aims to explain the basic concepts of React outside of the context of any particular CMS implementation. Many examples will be presented to help you understand it and why it is so powerful.

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May 29, 2020 — Damián Suárez, Code Wrangler en Automattic, nos habla de WordPress.jsx y cómo crear una aplicación web moderna utilizando WordPress como REST API.

October 3, 2019 — Grandes projetos como o Gutenberg e Jetpack estão sendo desenvolvidos com o uso do React e a adoção dessa biblioteca irá influenciar como temas, plugins e outros produtos são desenvolvidos no WordPress (WP). Assim, torna-se importante que desenvolvedores conheçam os conceitos e fundamentos básicos do React.

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August 11, 2019 — In 2018, WordPress will modernize, streamline, and simplify the content creation experience with Gutenberg. It represents the biggest change to the WordPress user experience in several years.
This session will teach just enough React for theme and plugin developers to start using Gutenberg today. Colour palettes, meta boxes, reusable blocks: all the new features, made easy.

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June 19, 2019 — We built a React single page application for one of the largest Finnish technology magazines. It replaced their old traditional WordPress site at the end of 2018.

The application has been in development for over a year now. It’s time to share our experiences building it, talk about why we built it, and how we built it. Because there were a lot of problems, I’ll talk about how we resolved them.

To name a few: authenticating users to WordPress, social media previews, search engine visibility, integration testing, and last but not least, cache invalidation in all parts of the stack.

Everyone in the audience should be able to grasp the main points, but developers will get most out of the talk.

June 2, 2019 — This talk will cover how JavaScript has been used with WordPress in the past, and how it will be used going forward. Instead of proposing one single method or framework to use when coding JavaScript, we will go through a few different combinations you’ll see in the wild in both older and more forward-looking WordPress plugins. Examples will cover AJAX with jQuery, ES6, the Heartbeat API, REACT, and Gutenberg blocks.

After this talk, attendees should feel more comfortable opening up any JS file they come across in the WordPress world and knowing a bit more about how to work with the various frameworks and patterns in use.

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