The idea behind this talk is to talk about how to build products, existing or new, for the Block Editor editor. When the editor was about to be ship with WordPress 5.0 version, a lot of companies and developers started to build blocks and all sort of things to make their products compatible with the new Block Editor.
But in the process, most of the products were made compatible with the Block Editor but not for the editor.
Different plugins used different approach without understanding the design language of the Gutenberg project and still used TinyMCE-like design pattern for their products.
This talk explores and talks about how you can build products that look native to the Block Editor, that use editor’s design language and make them look a part of the editor.
We explore the different APIs that the new editor brings in to play, like the Blocks API, Sidebar API and a lot more, and see how we can use different elements to the editor to make beautifully designed projects.
It also explores the design language of the Block Editor and some examples of how some popular plugins, like WooCommerce, Yoast & etc, have integrated their existing functionality with the new editor.