Consider how L&L can leverage DataViews

[GabrielGallagher]

https://developer.wordpress.org/block-editor/reference-guides/packages/packages-dataviews/
https://www.datakit.org/

Seems like the kind of thing that might be useful to interact with in some way

[eliot-akira]

Oh that's very interesting. I found some related links:

• Demo for the React component DataViews
• Datakit's PHP SDK, which apparently allows for connecting any data source to DataViews

This could be a good replacement for the existing Table module in L&L, which is undocumented yet. Its internals are somewhat complicated because it's based on a React table library that uses hooks for everything.

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I like the idea of leveraging available Gutenberg blocks/components, and other features bundled with WordPress, to extend L&L.

Especially if they can be used independently or without pulling in too many dependencies. I'm guessing any Gutenberg block will depend on loading wp.element, a proxy/wrapper for React, on the frontend. I just checked and it's actually a small library, wp-includes/js/dist/element.min.js (12K minified).

So theoretically we can look at other Gutenberg packages and core blocks, to consider if/how L&L can make use of them.

[GabrielGallagher]

@eliot-akira this also seems worth a look: https://github.com/Automattic/create-content-model/