Getting started with block development can be a daunting task for the new developer. If you’re used to developing themes and plugins for WordPress using HTML, CSS, and PHP, with a sprinkling of JavaScript, the additional build tools and modern JavaScript syntax required for block development might be confusing.

In this session, we’ll be looking at the software required to develop blocks, and how to set it all up. Then we’ll a tool called create-block to create our first block, we’ll look at the code that this generates and what each piece does.

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