I’m diving into some WordPress development, and I’ve hit a bit of a wall when trying to pass data from a backend function to my frontend JavaScript. I’ve read a ton of stuff online, but I just can’t seem to wrap my head around the best way to make this work.

Here’s the situation: I have this custom plugin that pulls some user data from the database using a PHP function. What I want is to take this data and make it accessible in my JavaScript code on the frontend. I want to make sure I do this in a clean, efficient way, and I’d love to hear what others have done in similar scenarios.

I considered directly embedding the PHP variable into a `