Talk about Calypso, WordPress, how it is being "JavaScriptized" more and more, and some unsorted cool stuff.

1. B O R E K B E R N A R D
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2. ABOUT ME
• WordPress developer by accident
• Working on @versionpress

3. 2003-2015, MOST OF YOU

4. StackOverflow, 2015 Developer Survey

5. 2015 – CALYPSO

6. 2015 – CALYPSO
• “Today we’re announcing something
brand new, a new approach to WordPress”
• “Calypso is written purely in JavaScript,
leveraging libraries like Node and React.”
• “This is a beginning, not an ending.”
– Matt Mullenweg, Dance to Calypso

7. http://gifsec.com/funny/stare-what-gif/

8. 2015 – CALYPSO

9. 2015 – CALYPSO

11. 2016, MOST OF YOU

12. StackOverflow, 2016 Developer Survey

14. REALITY CHECK
• “WordPress moved from PHP to Node.js”
–NO.
–WordPress core is PHP + MySQL
–but: more and more UIs are built in
JavaScript

15. REALITY CHECK
• “wordpress.com = wordpress.org”
–NO.
–WordPress.org = the software
–wordpress.com = publishing platform

16. REALITY CHECK
• “Calypso is the new admin for WP”
–both YES and NO.
–YES: it is available on wordpress.com and
via Jetpack on self-hosted WP
–NO: WordPress still comes with the old UI

17. REALITY CHECK
• “WordPress powers 25% of the web”
–YES (25% of the top 10 million sites)

18. WORDPRESS
IN
2016

19. REST API
GET /wp-json/wp/v2/posts

20. REST API

21. REST API

22. REACT UIs
• Calypso
• VersionPress
• Even some themes (ustwo, Picard, …)

23. REACT UIs

24. REACT UIs

25. REACT UIs

26. REACT UIs

27. GHOST THEMES + WP

28. GHOST THEMES + WP

29. GHOST THEMES + WP
data design
https://github.com/kadamwhite/ghostpress

30. WP AS A COMPONENT
http://kadamwhite.github.io/talks/2016/wp-node-feelingrestful/

31. WP AS A COMPONENT
http://kadamwhite.github.io/talks/2016/wp-node-feelingrestful/

32. WORDEXPRESS

33. WORDEXPRESS
• Node.js
• JavaScript
• React / JSX / inline styles
• GraphQL
• MySQL

34. THE FUTURE OF WORDPRESS
• “Learn JavaScript deeply”
• headless CMS
• New UIs, preferably in React
• (and, of course, Git-versioned via VersionPress  )

35. THANK YOU
@borekb