Detect whether a block has server-side render

In PHP, it’s certainly possible to check if a block type is dynamic or whether the block uses server-side rendering. For example for already registered block types, just get the block type object and call its is_dynamic method. $block_registry = WP_Block_Type_Registry::get_instance(); $block_name=”core/latest-posts”; $block_type_object = $block_registry->get_registered( $block_name ); if ( $block_type_object ) { // Note: render_callback … Read more

what is the function of the view.js file?

The filename is not really relevant. You should check block.json to see where the file is actually being used. I would guess that it’s being used for the viewScript property, in which case you can check its purpose by looking for the documentation for that property, rather than anything about “view.js” alone. As noted in … Read more