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React in the editor

Islands, blocks, and surviving Gutenberg's re-renders.

Rendering React inside the WordPress block editor without losing your mind

Gutenberg ships its own pinned React. Here's the mental model Earle uses to mount React islands in the block editor without the two worlds fighting over the DOM.

3 min read Apr 2026

React

Sharing state between React islands without a global store

Two islands, one page, no Redux. How to keep independent React roots in sync using @wordpress/data, custom events, and the occasional shared context.

5 min read Jan 2026