Implementing Without WordPress

[circleb]

I really like Gutenberg, and want to use it on an existing project that isn't in WP. Is there a way to implement it without WordPress? How much of it is reliant on WordPress?

[richaber]

Hey there @circleb

This isn't really an "answer" to your question, and I'm not a member of the Gutenberg team, just a casual observer, so take what I say with a grain of salt. That being said, there's some folks over at Frontkom working on porting Gutenberg to Drupal. They have a repo over at front/gutenberg-js and and that project's readme mentions some of the WP specific data/endpoints/etc. that Gutenberg uses or expects. It might help you find some of the answers to your questions if you have a look at their readme.

[tofumatt]

Gutenberg is certainly usable outside of WordPress (this is a design goal, or at least it's designed not to be extremely coupled to WordPress's editor). That said, WordPress is our main testing environment and development environment so you're bound to encounter minor issues when using it outside of WP. Like @richaber said: there are other projects using Gutenberg now that would be useful references.

If you start using Gutenberg outside of WordPress please let us know, that's super cool! 👍 And if you encounter any issues because of the project's structure please file issues or submit PRs to make us better citizens elsewhere in the CMS world 😄

For now I'll close this issue with the answer: yes. But we might not have any guides for you right now 😄

[tpaksu]

I don't want to re-open this issue, but if you could just list whatever is currently bound to WP Core, we could write some replacements when implementing the editor outside WP. For example, the gallery block and the image block is dependent on WP Media Gallery, thus we would fill those needs with other sources.

[abursill]

I would like to use it ourside of Wordpress. I have found myself becoming reliant on Wordpress.
I want to go back to making sites outside of a CMS wshere I can code without all the restrictions of Wordpress. While Wordpress is good for people who not know how to code. It annoys the hell out of me,

[chisan0501]

check out this PR
#14497

looks like there is a way to build without wordpress already in place

[feodoraxis]

I found repository that allows you to do this:
https://github.com/Automattic/isolated-block-editor