by Darren Ethier (@nerrad)
Everything and anything to do with technology in today’s world.
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 […]
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 […]
(Edit October 10, 2018) Note: This article is now out of date but is kept published for reference purposes. Nearly everything in Gutenberg is published as a package so for the purpose of testing you can include those packages as a devDependency in your package.json file and jest will know to reference those in tests. As a […]
Recently, one of my clients purchased a server with FireHost.com. We’d been on the search for a new web host for some time now to serve as the infrastructure supporting upcoming web applications we have in the works. We needed a company who is well recommended, and will help us scale and scale quickly. You pay […]
I got really intrigued with the wp-cli tool for command line WordPress (seriously awesome, check it out)… however I haven’t switched my osx machine to use the built in php and mysql so I kept getting this error: ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/tmp/mysql.sock’ (2) Easy fix: sudo ln […]
I always like hearing from people about new things happening in their lives and I’m excited to share something new happening in mine. For most of the last year as a part of my web development business I’ve been helping a company called Event Espresso with their website redesign and some bits and pieces that are running […]
Here’s some symptoms of early adopter’s disease… you subscribe to multiple tech blog feeds. Even worse, you follow all their twitter feeds. Even worse than that, you are a fan of their facebook page. Oh and by “multiple”, I mean so many that you have 100 new posts an hour coming into your feed reader. […]
The title of this post is taken from a question posed over at ChurchDrop a while ago (along with an iPhone giveaway – great way of generating comments on the subject!) and I left a comment there so good I thought I’d repost it here [tongue in cheek] and add to it. Actually, there’s a […]