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I'm here to say that the Gutenberg team is going to take a step back and rewrite Gutenberg using a different library. It will likely delay Gutenberg at least a
by jasonsync 9y ago
I'm here to say that the Gutenberg team is going to take a step back and rewrite Gutenberg using a different library. It will likely delay Gutenberg at least a few weeks, and may push the release into next year.
Just a few weeks? Is it that trivial to swap out a library?
- kotojo 9y agoThe only way I could see them doing it in a few weeks is swapping it out with something with a very similar api like inferno or preact.
- j_m_b 9y agoYah I LOL'd out that one. A year from now we'll be reading the postmortem of the problems the Gutenberg team has faced swapping out React for another library and how things still aren't quite what they used to be.
- danielharrison 9y agoDepends on how it's written. I'd suspect they've done a pretty good job on eeping the engine as decoupled from their code as possible. It'd probably be just a matter of rewriting a translation layer.
- grantpalin 9y agoApparently the Gutenberg Element concept (https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/tree/master/element https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/tree/master/element) wraps React to minimize contact with React itself. So converting to Preact might not take over long. Note that I haven't dug very far into the Gutenberg codebase so at the moment I am just supposing.