Solve Issue with Re-render when using Rest Hooks for API call

[supernoir]

Current Behavior: The page renders infinitely often when using rest hooks payloads in a page, causing the browser to crash

Expected Behavior Rest hooks handle API calls without re-rendering the page when data is used in render method

[supernoir]

I spent sometime trying to understand the underlying problem but finally decided to raise a bug with REST hooks. This ticket is blocked until the Bug is resolved:

For reference: https://github.com/coinbase/rest-hooks/issues/341

[supernoir]

The issue could be resolved through the following means:

• API: Enforce response header of type application/json
• Client: Extend Resource class with a generic, abstract BaseResource class that type-checks the response. If the response header is not JSON already, it will JSON.parse the string representation of the payload object.

It is however necessary to refactor and optimize the code and find out why application/json needed to be converted to string to begin with (which happens when REST Hooks encounters a non-JSON response), as the API should only serve JSONs

Follow-up ticket: https://github.com/supernoir/wikivent/issues/20