Episode 043: Before you learn JS deeply, learn PHP and WordPress

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JavScript, the newest big buzz language that has been moving around the WordPress community for the past couple years, and has spawned some awesome projects, tutorials, and has shifted focus to the WordPress REST API and what you can do with it (now in core).

However, the WordPress REST API is not built in JavaScript, it is built in PHP. PHP is the language that all of WordPress is built on, so being able to hack a theme by inserting the_title(); in somewhere isn't going to cut it much anymore if you want to move into advanced JS development, powered by the REST API.