5 things you should know about WordPress... wait, what?
summary
WordPress is moving substantial UI work into React since 2017 and now ships a reusable Gutenberg block editor that's built as npm packages from a monorepo and runs against the REST API, including a standalone Storybook instance and a Drupal integration, so the editor actually works outside WordPress. A third of the codebase is already JavaScript, the React relicensing switch to MIT enables adoption, and React is wrapped in WordPress Element so it can be swapped if needed. Non‑React authors keep using globals via window.WP and create-block tooling hides Webpack.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction to WordPress
- 1:21The Gutenberg editor
- 4:24Adopting React
- 6:21React licensing and tooling
- 9:48Integration and decoupling
- 13:33Extending the ecosystem
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