Unfolding Neurons

In the last post I gave you a quick overview of the api for registering a new data store. I mentioned that this next post would take a closer look at the individual properties of a store, but before we do that, let’s take a brief break and take a look at an app that […]

The primary way in which you interact with state in wp.data is through a registered store. In this post we’re going to give an overview of the api for registering a store and then subsequent posts will dive into the specific components of the store config. registerStore( reducerKey, options ) Every data store found in […]

Now that we have our new custom data store registered, we need to start integrating it with our example app. There are numerous ways in which you can interface with the data store in your components but I’m going to cover the four most common, straightforward ways. withSelect( mapToProps )( Component) withSelect is a higher […]

To recap: so far in the series we’ve looked at the various properties of the configuration object for a store: selectors: which interface with the store for retrieving data from its state. actions: (actually action creators) which are used to dispatch action objects for handling by the reducer. reducer: which receives dispatched actions and determines […]

Often with any sort of state in a given application, there can be times in an application’s lifecycle where you want to be able to execute some sort of logic as a part of the flow in setting state or updating state. A good example of this is asynchronous data flows between the client and […]

The job of selectors is to provide an interface to access state from the registered data store. With wp.data this is the primary way that your store state is exposed and allows you to encapsulate logic surrounding exposing that data. For instance, let’s say you just want to store all products in the store state […]

For the past couple of years, my involvement with the Gutenberg project in WordPress has frequently taken me into the innards of @wordpress/data.  I’ve had to use it for projects integrating with the new WordPress Block Editor (Gutenberg), new interfaces and user experiences utilizing the new WordPress JavaScript packages, and I’ve also been directly involved […]