Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Jump to bottom

Add some missing words, delete some unnecessary #14838

Merged
merged 1 commit into from
Apr 24, 2019
Merged

Add some missing words, delete some unnecessary #14838

Changes from all commits
Commits
Show all changes
1 commit
Select commit
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension
Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions docs/designers-developers/developers/tutorials/javascript/readme.md
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
# Getting Started with JavaScript

The purpose of this tutorial is to step through getting started with JavaScript and WordPress, specifically around the new block editor. The Gutenberg Handbook documentation contains information on the APIs available for working with the block editor. The goal of this tutorial is get you comfortable on how to use the API reference and snippets of code found within.
The purpose of this tutorial is to step through getting started with JavaScript and WordPress, specifically around the new block editor. The Gutenberg Handbook documentation contains information on the APIs available for working with the block editor. The goal of this tutorial is to get you comfortable on how to use the API reference and snippets of code found within.

### What is JavaScript

JavaScript is a programming language which is loaded and executed in your web browser; compared to PHP which is run by a web server with the results sent to the browser, typically as HTML.

The block editor introduced in WordPress 5.0 is written entirely in JavaScript, with the code run in the browser, and not on the server, this allows for a richer and more dynamic user experience. It also requires to learn how to use JavaScript to extend and enhance the block editor.
The block editor introduced in WordPress 5.0 is written in JavaScript, with the code run in the browser, and not on the server, this allows for a richer and more dynamic user experience. It also requires you to learn how to use JavaScript to extend and enhance the block editor.


### Table of Contents
Expand Down