This month we have a virtual meetup scheduled with Robert, who made the toolset named PeakZebra, and will share his experience with us.
Blocks are primarily seen as a way to create visual content on a website, but it’s worth thinking about blocks as components that can provide modular pieces of applications. I’ve built a toolset for building things that do what applications do. You can build a form with the blocks, you can easily add various levels of processing to the submitted data, and you can view and manage the data you’ve collected in various ways, including interactive tables. It has obvious similarities to things like ACF, but it presents to the user entirely on the front end, uses separate data tables (as opposed to post meta), and provides a framework for a range of data manipulation, allowing for the creation of many common kinds of processing with no coding. What began as a simple experiment has grown into a full ecosystem, and I’d love to share a quick glimpse (both the front-end experience and the building process, right on the page in the block editor) and hear what you think.