[OSM-dev] GSOC Project: "Make the website use the API"

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Am 02.03.2018 um 06:12 schrieb Andy Allan:
> On 2 March 2018 at 04:43, Paul Norman <penorman at mac.com> wrote:
>> I wrote a blog post on how to get started with the API projects:
>> http://paulnorman.ca/blog/2018/02/make-the-website-use-the-api-gsoc-project/
> It would be remiss of me to point out that I don't think this project
> is a good idea. Although I said similar things last year (
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2017-February/029702.html
> ) I'll say it again now.
> 
> The idea of having a single-page javascript app to replace the browse
> pages is overcomplicating a problem that barely exists. We would then
> have a browser asking the website for some javascript code, which then
> runs and asks the website for some API request. The website will fetch
> the data from the database, construct a response in XML, then the
> javascript decodes that, and finally constructs some html for the user
> to view. 

Curiously, we already have _both_ approaches in use today, as can be
seen on the object detail page [1].

While the sidebar shows server side rendered content, the map itself
gets its data via a separate Javascript based API call ([2], [3]).

[1] https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/5324545411
[2] https://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/node/5324545411
[3] https://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/way/426638763/full