CloudFest Hackathon 2023 Kickstarts Innovative WordPress Projects: VS Code Extension for In-Browser Development, WapuuGotchi Gamification Plugin, and More
More than 6,000 people are attending CloudFest in Europa-Park, Germany, this week. A strong contingent of WordPress developers and contributors are among them. During the Hackathon portion of the event, web professionals gather for a friendly competition, tackling problems for existing not-for-profit, OSS projects, creating solutions with a concentrated effort at a quicker pace than remote collaboration usually allows. WordPress running in VS Code!!! #CFHack2023 pic.twitter.com/qKQeQBZClW— daniel (@dbchhbr) March 19, 2023 Several WordPress-related projects have been put into action at the Hackathon, including the following: MariaDB Health Checks in WordPress Statify: Privacy-Focused Web Analytics Plugin docs_dangit: A search engine for WordPress developers Wapuugotchi Wappspector Eco-mode – reduce outgoing network traffic of your WordPress server WordPress Runtime Vulnerability Analysis In-browser WordPress development environment Automattic engineer Daniel Bachhuber published a preview of the in-browser WordPress development environment enabled by an experimental VS Code extension that uses WebAssembly to run WordPress entirely in the browser. “Forget spending hours setting up a local development environment at your next Contributor Day,” Bachhuber said. “Simply install the WordPress Playground VS Code extension, run ‘Launch WordPress Playground’ from the command launcher, and you’ll have a fully mostly functional WordPress installation right inside your editor.” Bachhuber emphasized that the extension was built…
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