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REST APIs and the Return of the Console App

James Blair http://lca2015.linux.org.au/schedule/... Text-based interfaces are great for working with, well, text! We talk to each other in text-based IRC clients. We run compilers and the programs we write from text-based terminals. We write code in text-based editors. Some of us even read our email there too. But increasingly, developer tools are showing up on the web. A recent trend for web applications to have fully separate REST-based "backend" systems that are in turn used by "frontend" Javascript applications has not only freed Javascript developers to write more expressive applications, but has the unexpected side benefit of freeing users to create their own preferred interface to tools they commonly use. In this presentation, the author will introduce Gertty, a new console-based interface for the (web-based) Gerrit code review system and use it to demonstrate the advantages of applications developed with fully-featured REST interfaces. We will talk about the challenges of developing a "secondary" interface, the unique environment of a console app, and the surprising benefits of not being tied to the web.