Building a multi-block plugin

[bph]

Discussed in #289

^{Originally posted by troychaplin July 15, 2024}
Create block is a fantastic to help get you up and running with a new block rather quickly. but what if you plan to build multiple blocks and want to keep them all contained within one plugin?

I was faced with this challenge in a recent project and think sharing my experience and configuration would benefit other developers. This post would include plenty of code examples as well as a repo with a multi-block starter project that I would build during the process of writing the post.

[bph]

... making sure this comment by @zzap doesn't get lost

@troychaplin please ping me when draft is ready for the first review. Thanks

[bph]

Here are a few links to get you started, @troychaplin

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How to contribute

and in there you also find Google Doc template to get you started.. Notes on creating and formatting a Google Doc #242

[troychaplin]

Just a quick follow up @bph and @zzap, it's nearly done. Was away for a week on vacation, hoping to have the first draft done in the next couple of days.

[flexseth]

@troychaplin - nice to see you over here, we've chatted on Ryan's livestream a bit. Here are a number of links and resources, and some GitHub issues that this could help to address.

Issue #22 - Block Developer Cookbook

• Creating a plugin that exposes several blocks while using the same wp-scripts package ryanwelcher/block-developer-cookbook#22

Issue #80 - Block Development Examples repo

WordPress/block-development-examples#80

• A plugin containing multiple blocks (showing file structure / build configuration etc.)

Slack discussion:

https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C03RL47B3S8/p1709818696592279

Specifically for the prerequisites part. Like, you are reading an advanced article. We assume you know about X, Y, Z. Where X would be wp-scripts, Y building a simple plugin, etc.

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Video resources

• Block Developer’s Cookbook
  • From WC Asia

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create-block-plugin - Advanced

Can be used to scaffold multiple blocks (via CLI) - maybe a follow-up post.

[troychaplin]

Good to hear from you again @flexseth. Thanks for these links, I'll go over them once I get my first draft written and see how they relate.

[troychaplin]

@zzap The first draft of my article is ready for review -- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vlCwOmoea4HdqkVlNACNTWuVKFC7KIs3mg4cIIva_JQ/edit?usp=sharing