Investigate setup and use of wp data

[jconroy]

Look into whether there is any base setup we need to implement WooCommerce Admin data store and utilities.

WordPress’ data module serves as a hub to manage application state for both plugins and WordPress itself, providing tools to manage data within and between distinct modules. It is designed as a modular pattern for organizing and sharing data: simple enough to satisfy the needs of a small plugin, while scalable to serve the requirements of a complex single-page application.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/@wordpress/data

Some great reading https://unfoldingneurons.com/2020/wordpress-data-series-overview-and-introduction (which is linked from an internal post p90Yrv-1Ay-p2 )

Also in consideration with investigating integrating with AssetDataRegistry - where it can be used to pre-hydrate the store (it was suggested we might need to look at the AssetDataRegistry)

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We'll likely need to create a few different data stores as we develop the UI:

• Merchange Center Onboarding? / Ads Onboarding?
• Product/Offer Data?
• General plugin settings? Or options?

[jconroy]

I need to check with the wc-admin folks if we can use the woocommerce/data package or if we should be building out something for ourselves from wordpress/data.

I put together a quick example today and it was requiring me to have a bunch of extra dependencies it doesn't seem like we'd need

[jconroy]

if we can use the woocommerce/data package or if we should be building out something for ourselves from wordpress/data.

We can use the stores in woocommerce/data 👍 So likely won't need to set up stores ourselves for options etc. but probably makes sense for our own onboarding

it was requiring me to have a bunch of extra dependencies it doesn't seem like we'd need

Apparently they are needed woocommerce/woocommerce-admin#5636

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New package coming to help with dependency extraction https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce-admin/tree/main/packages/dependency-extraction-webpack-plugin (I couldn't get it to work for us.)

[tomalec]

Are there any hidden docs for @woocommerce/data? The README.md is extremely limited, and there are no JSDocs.
I tried https://woocommerce.github.io/woocommerce-admin/#/ and https://woocommerce.github.io/code-reference/.
And I find nothing, but the code to read with almost no code comments :(

[jconroy]

Hey @tomalec have you taken a look at

Some great reading https://unfoldingneurons.com/2020/wordpress-data-series-overview-and-introduction (which is linked from an internal post p90Yrv-1Ay-p2 )

[tomalec]

Yes, I did, they give a nice overview of wp-data. What I look for is a more detailed documentation of each and every feature/export for woocommerce/data.

[tomalec]

I'm looking for something like https://developer.wordpress.org/block-editor/packages/packages-data/ but for woocommerce-data.

[jconroy]

Unfortunately, I don't think there is anything more detailed.

One thing that I just saw flagged this morning is there is a new package coming WordPress/gutenberg#26866

[ecgan]

I'm closing this issue. We are using wp-data since #138.