Bootstrap a multi-block plugin structure

lmartins commented 4 years ago

Looks like this tool only supports a one block per plugin workflow, which is likely just fine for many use cases, but maybe falls apart for larger projects where you need to create multiple projects. I wonder if you have considered the option of having multiple blocks under the same plugin.

michealengland commented 4 years ago

@lmartins Thanks for opening the issue. I discussed this with @donmhico and at this time we're not pursuing a multi-block setup due to some of the complications that will occur with WP Scripts.

Some of the main challenges are:

Extracting blocks into individual JS files which would require a large reconfiguration of the Webpack config
Changing to a multiple file setup would also add some new challenges with the PostCSS config

As an alternative, we may add some adjustments in the future around how we import our block assets so that they're not tied to a block namespace.

In the meantime, you can add as many blocks as you'd like by importing adjusting the import structure under /src. Example /src

import './block-1';
import './block-2';
import './block-3';

lmartins commented 4 years ago

Thanks so much for the feedback and suggestion @michealengland I'll proceed as suggested. Thank you!

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