Dreamweaver CC on Mac / PC about create-divi-extension HOT 4 CLOSED

Hi, you can use any IDE that you like to develop Divi extensions with custom modules 😃

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Forgive my ignorance... I've never developed for Wordpress before. I've done development for other CMS's but with Wordpress I've primarily stuck with Divi-based layout development and plugin configurations. So when 3.1 Divi came out I decided I needed to go ahead and dive in. I have custom modules I've wanted and now if I just learn the Wordpress/Divi development process then I can start to make these come to life.

So everything I have read (and I've read the entire ET Developer Documentation) appears to require that I install Dockers(?) and run command-line commands in order to compiled(?) my module development environment.

What I remember about PHP, and what I know about JS and HTML5 is that they don't need to be compiled. So I am very confused about where I would start out with Dreamweaver.

For instance... my first thought is to just clone the repository, dump the code into my plugin folder on a test/staging Wordpress install with Divi installed, and start testing... But then I see the *.jsx file and I'm lost. Does require preprocessing? How would I do this in Dreamweaver?

My current experience is with a Dojo environment use an API created for webmaps by ESRI, interspersed with HTML/JS/CSS coding here and there, and then coding for Zikula a decade ago.

So if you can (be gentle, lol) please direct me to how I would go about starting a custom module development with Dreamweaver.

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What I remember about PHP, and what I know about JS and HTML5 is that they don't need to be compiled. So I am very confused about where I would start out with Dreamweaver.

You're not wrong. Typically they don't need to be compiled but in this case we're not using standard old JavaScript. Since we're using the latest and greatest JavaScript features, it has to be compiled down to the old JavaScript to ensure it works in all browsers. In order to compile it you have to install Node.js and all the JavaScript dependencies. TBH, the easiest way for you to get started would be to follow our documentation to create a Divi dev site with Docker and then use create-divi-extension to setup a basic extension that you can then edit to your needs. That way you don't have to figure out all the moving parts just to get started 😉

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ok... I will try that once I get home. I was hoping for something I could configure more quickly. Ah well...

Thank you for your time.

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