Browsable API

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We should provide a browsable API (like http://restframework.herokuapp.com/). We already have the hypermedia controls/links for browsing content. Though, we are missing at least the auto-generated froms for CRUD operations.

[tisto]

DRF just announced a new version of their browsable API:

http://www.django-rest-framework.org/topics/3.6-announcement/

If we want to compete in the API market for Python-based backends we need something like this as well.

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GSoC 2018 starter:

1. Check out plone.restapi repo (git lcone) and make it work on your machine.

Here is a starting point: https://github.com/plone/plone.restapi/pull/488/files

2. Have a look at Django REST Framework to check what kind of functionality we are looking for:

http://www.django-rest-framework.org/topics/3.6-announcement/

The DRF features would be a good starting point for a detailed listing of the goals and schedule for GSoC

3. Choose a JavaScript front-end framework to build a simple PoC (preferably React, Angular, VueJS or something similar are also fine though).