divio: split frontend completely from backend

[digi604]

What i had in mind:

• one page JS application that only talks with the rest api.
• forms are serialized via rest api
• lists and possible filters are serialized via rest api
• easy way to create rest-apis and websockets

benefits:

• the frontend can talk with multiple servers
• the frontend can talk with other rest services (not python, django) directly if it supports the same protocols
• allows to go into a services driven infrastructure easily instead of the monolithic we have at the moment.
• could emerge as a quasi standard admin interface for a lot of other backends.
• allows to use forms etc on the website frontend and even on other websites.
• allows for easy frontend editing
• allows for smart widgets that can talk with the rest apis to load more data

[pydanny]

This is what the RESTful API is designed to provide. It's not there yet, but I hope for it to be there by version 0.6.0.

[audreyfeldroy]

+1, this would be great implemented as a separate theme (like how default is a theme).