by Darren Ethier (@nerrad)
A colleague recently gave me a nice compliment. He said, “I recognize you as one of the most productive and impactful people in Automattic.” He followed up with a question, “What is your secret? What advice or tips can you share with someone like me?” The compliment was encouraging – there are some days I […]
Roughly three years ago I started writing a series of posts on the wp.data API. Little did I know how valuable this post would be to so many people within the WordPress community (and at my current employer Automattic)! Of course, as it is with all APIs, changes happen and while the content of the […]
On the evening of April 5th, 2022, my sister made her journey from this life to the next. My heart is heavy and full of grief. Still. Writing this has been cathartic. I’ve started and stopped many times over the past few months. Often weeping. It’s my attempt to honour her memory and ease the […]
With the successful transfer of ownership of Organize Series, and less time to manage my Digital Ocean droplet for my blog, I decided to transfer hosting of unfoldingneurons.com to WordPress.com. Besides removing the need for me to maintain a server, this also allows me to experience the best work my colleagues do and experience all […]
For those who follow me on twitter you may recall a post I tweeted just over a year ago: My start date with Automattic was July 23, 2019. I fully intended on writing a followup to that tweet, but then got sucked into all kinds of fun stuff with my new responsibilities and posted in […]
At various places so far in this series, you would have seen me use phrases like: I’ve also mentioned that I’d get to this mysterious “registry” reference later in the series. Well, here we are! What problem does the Registry solve? As a part of diving into what the registry is in the context of […]
Now we have a resolver for asynchronously getting products via a REST api endpoint, we have some action creators, and we have a selector. We haven’t got to the reducer yet, but before we get to it, let’s consider another problem we haven’t addressed yet. When we update or create a product using our ui, […]
The WordPress data module (or package) is a critical component of the new WordPress Editor as demonstrated by it’s implementation in (at the time of writing) 7 other WordPress packages: @wordpress/block-directory registers a store with the core/block-directory namespace. @wordpress/block-editor registers a store with the core/block-editor namespace. @wordpress/blocks registers a store with the core/blocks namespace. @wordpress/core-data […]
In the exploration through wp.data, we’ve already created the necessary properties needed to register the custom products store for our example app. This includes, action creators, selectors, controls, and resolvers. Now it’s time to get to the last property we need for registering our store, and that’s the reducer. The reducer is arguably the most […]
Before we took our side detour into learning about the controls property, I mentioned that since we now have a selector for getting products, it’d be good to implement a way to retrieve the products from the server. This is where resolvers come in. Let’s get started by creating a resolver for retrieving products. If […]