How to switch from ACF PRO to Gutenberg?

Question

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Interested in the experience of developers transitioning from Advanced Custom Fields PRO version to blocks from Gutenberg. I create corporate portals with flexible fields layouts from acf, and I also use repeaters almost everywhere. Does Gutenberg have the ability to quickly sketch out the layout and display blocks on the site based on the layout, as is done with ACF? Thanks

Answer 1

ACF Pro helps you create blocks for Gutenberg using PHP, it's convenient and greatly speeds up your work. But if you need to completely abandon ACF Pro and use only Gutenberg, then you will have to file your own blocks (hello React) or find ready-made ones suitable for your tasks.
However, for some blocks it is worth exhaling and thinking a little - it may be worth changing your thinking. For example, on ACF, we automatically consider repeating content to be a repeater and create the appropriate fields. And on Gutenberg, often the repeater as such is not needed - the block itself is enough. After all, creating several identical blocks in a row in Gutenberg is not difficult, it’s kind of built in out of the box.
A simple example is the testimonials block. On ACF, we usually create a repeater, in which the necessary fields will be repeated, say - text, name, photo (review text, client name and his avatar). And on gutenberg, it's enough to have a testimonial block with the same fields, and just insert it X times in a row - that's repeating data for you.