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/
I recommend steps 2, 4, and 5 for anyone applying for a project which
interacts with the API.
On 2/13/2018 9:08 AM, IMT2016050 Biswesh Mohapatra wrote:
Hello, My name is Biswesh. I am a second year Computer Science
student and am very keen on contributing to OSM for GSOC 2018. I have
been looking into the idea list for GSOC 2018 and found out the
project - “ Make the website use the API “ proposed by Paul Norman
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Pnorman> to be very
interesting as the concept can be very useful for OSM and also because
it seems to be a bit challenging. I have some prior knowledge of
Javascript, Ruby on Rails and also have some basic knowledge of REST api.
Although I don’t have much knowledge about implementing the idea, I
searched a bit about it and found out some useful articles which
showed some advantages of changing the website to rely on API calls
instead of directly accessing the database. I have given the links here:
http://solnic.eu/2011/08/01/making-activerecord-models-thin.html
http://jamesgolick.com/2010/3/14/crazy-heretical-and-awesome-the-way-i-write-rails-apps.html
I have also searched a bit about implementing the project and found
out that the following can be useful:
Active rest client - https://github.com/whichdigital/active-rest-client
Active resource - https://github.com/rails/activeresource
I would like to be guided on this project idea so that I can prepare
myself better for it. Also if I could be provided some better sources
through which I can have a better understanding of the problem then I
would be grateful.
On a side note - I would also like to ask if we can explore about
migrating the entire rest based workflow to some of the emerging
technologies like graphQL.
My GitHub account:
https://github.com/biswesh456
Regards
Biswesh Mohapatra
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