WordPress is working on a new block-based editor under the codename "Gutenberg". This is one of the biggest changes WordPress has ever undergone, and it completely overhauls the entire editing page, using modern JavaScript code & concepts to provide a fast & fluid client-side experience.

In this talk we'll briefly go over the basics of Gutenberg, and then discuss how you can use the server-side rendering engine of Gutenberg and a few clever WordPress scripting tricks to keep your logic and rendering code within PHP.