I’ve worked with WordPress for over a decade. For the most part that meant writing a lot of PHP, with a bit of JavaScript sprinkled in, usually powered by jQuery. But with the arrival of Gutenberg, the future of WordPress is in JavaScript.
I’ll walk through how I navigated the transition of writing mostly PHP to more modern JavaScript and show you that it’s nothing to be scared of—from how I was able to wrap my head around the general differences in the languages, to some basics of tooling and build processes, to working with React and building things with Gutenberg.