What’s the Roadmap? (Gutenberg / Node.js)
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For over a decade WordPress has been a basic LAMP CMS.
Now a sudden change to Node.js and React.js. And a Youtube-video on the WordPress channel stating that we, the developers, should just “learn the new tools and move on”.
I’m a full stack developer, I’ve been coding in PHP since 2001. On top I became a Linux Administrator cause I needed to fill in this position, right now I’m at the level of an LPIC-2 Engineer with about 7 years of practical web hosting experience and have 2 years of experience with Cloud Platforms.
I can do JavaScript, no problem. I also can do Python & Django. I just didn’t want to use Node or React (or even Django) as my main framework for everyday-use in web development. That is because we make mainly end-customer websites, and not web-apps.
Node.js brings it’s own webserver, we don’t want that. If it’s a better webserver than Apache2 + nginx or not isn’t the question. It’s not the technology we want to use.
Besides the research I did now in my xmas holidays, after a year of working 12h / day, 7 days a week, I could not find out what’s the particular plan for WordPress.
Will WordPress ditch all of it’s PHP Framework?
Will everyone NEED to use Node.js to make custom WordPress Websites / Themes?
Will the Node.js webserver come into play at some point?
Where there considerations regarding SEO?
What’s the timeframe this all will go down?
Is there any exit-strategy for the case that users don’t like / accept this sudden change in the underlying technology?
Did you expect that every WordPress-PHP developer just switches to Node.js in their holidays?Cheers.
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