In the ancient times, there only was TinyMCE. People made use of metadata, served in meta boxes, stored in individual database entries in a dedicated table, referencing posts that only had an unstructured content blob. And those were good times. Soon this will all change, with the arrival of Gutenberg, the whole new editing experience for your WordPress back end.
In this talk, Thorsten will try to prepare you for Gutenberg and its Gutenblocks, making use of a potential future part of WordPress, namely: React, and one of the most massive features of the last decade: the WordPress REST API.
By means of a simple post voting block, Thorsten will convey the concepts of a Gutenblock, using state-of-the-art tooling.
Your Bio: Thorsten is a certified PHP engineer, web development professional and tester. He is working in the web since 2000, and with (and on) WordPress since 2005. Thorsten is a Senior WordPress Engineer at Human Made.
A big fan of open source, Thorsten created several plugins and other projects, but also contributed to existing open source projects. Also, he is an advocate of object-oriented design, and software testing.
Since the first official German WordCamp in Hamburg in June 2014, Thorsten fell in love with both the WordPress community and WordCamps, in particular, where he likes to both gain and share knowledge.