Roadmap: Extensible / Reusable Blocks UI

[jmikrut]

Description

Modularize all block React components into an extremely simple and reusable API so that developers can easily build replacement components on a block by block basis. For example, many "layout builder" style block fields might feature a paragraph or richText-style block type, where the UI of the admin panel editing experience could be similar to Medium's or WP Gutenberg's. To allow for this, we need to separate out all block components such as reordering, drag + drop, and block naming into separate and reusable React components, where the developer can then freely create their own block UI patterns.

This feature will be extremely powerful and could unlock a block UI marketplace, where developers could create highly polished blocks for commonly needed content models like paragraphs, accordions, columns, and more.

Implementation Detail

• Allow for developers to specify admin components for each of their blocks
• Slightly refactor and modularize all existing React block components for easy re-use
• Potentially update the design of the Blocks field in general

Potential Breaking Changes

None

Effort

High