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Gutenberg is the new React-driven SPA editing experience in WordPress. Oh wait, a string of buzzwords doesn’t count for a viable explanation of software? We’re going to unpack that string of buzzwords as we explain what Gutenberg is.

Article Series:

1. Series Introduction
2. What is Gutenberg, Anyway? (This Post)
3. A Primer with create-guten-block (Coming Soon!)
4. Modern JavaScript Syntax (Coming Soon!)
5. React 101 (Coming Soon!)
6. Setting up a Custom webpack (Coming Soon!)
7. A Custom “Card” Block (Coming Soon!)

First, a before-and-after screenshot …

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Hey CSS-Tricksters! 👋 We have a special long-form series we’re kicking off here totally dedicated to Gutenberg, a major change to the WordPress editor. I’ve invited a dynamic duo of authors to bring you this series, which will bring you up to speed on what Gutenberg is, what it can do for your site, and how you can actually develop for it.

Who this is for

This series is more for developers who are curious about this new world …

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Keith Grant recently released a brand new book on CSS: CSS in Depth. If you’re looking for a book focused specifically on learning CSS, you’ve found it. I was happy to write the foreword for it, which I’ll republish here.

“A minute to learn… A lifetime to master.” That phrase might feel a little trite these days, but I still like it. It was popularized in modern times by being the tagline for the board game Othello. In Othello, …

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These Unicode patterns by Yuan Chuan are extraordinarily clever. It’s a <css-doodle> custom web component that sets up a CSS grid and randomizes what character to drop into a cell and things, like color.

See all their gorgeous work on CodePen and the very cool <css-doodle> website as well.

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How about a classic CSS trick! This isn’t even so tricky anymore, since CSS has counter-increment and counter-reset and such that is perfect for this. I just wanted to make sure you knew how it works and had some easy-to-copy examples at the ready.

Let’s say all you wanna do is style the dang numbers:

See the Pen Custom List Style 2 by Chris Coyier (@chriscoyier) on CodePen.

Here’s an example from the CodePen Challenges pages:

See …

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Simona Cotin did a great talk at Microsoft Build about Serverless technologies, called “Build Node APIs Using Serverless.” In this talk, she addresses pretty much every major gotcha that you might run into while creating Serverless infrastructure for JavaScript applications. Some of the topics included, but are not limited to:

• CORS
• Local Debugging with VS Code
• Installing npm packages
• Configuring REST-like URLs
• Saving environment variables

All in all, it’s one of the best talks on Serverless I’ve seen, and if …

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React is fast! Some of that speed comes from updating only the parts of the DOM that need it. Less for you to worry about and a speed gain to boot. As long as you understand the workings of setState(), you should be good to go. However, it’s also important to familiarize yourself with how this amazing library updates the DOM of your application. Knowing this will be instrumental in your work as a React developer.

The DOM?

The …

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