At WordCamp US in early Dec 2017 I set out a goal to release a Gutenberg Development Course by the end of the year. As of writing it is New Years Eve 2017 and I just made it!
One of the important functions I learned about while working on the course is registerBlockType, which is used to register to setup blocks. This video gives an overview of the function.
An Introduction to registerBlockType
In this video we discuss the following:
- What the registerBlockType function does
- What major parameters and setting you need when looking at it
- A few simplified code examples
- Sneak peak of the blocks we will use to learn more about registerBlockType
CORRECTION: At 05:10 in the slide should look like below:

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