[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #38342: Quick Draft: Leverage REST API endpoints

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#38342: Quick Draft: Leverage REST API endpoints
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 Reporter:  adamsilverstein       |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement           |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Administration        |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch REST-API  |     Focuses:  javascript
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Comment (by aduth):

 The above patch is more-or-less functionally complete. The experience
 should feel much the same as it is currently.

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 Some thoughts and pain points encountered in the course of implementing
 this:

 - Bootstrapping data helps in displaying recent drafts more quickly, but
 there's still a delay for as long as it takes for the dashboard script to
 load. I added some placeholder elements to give the illusion of incoming
 content and reduce the jarring effect of items suddenly appearing.
 - It's still not clear how we'd access certain data from JavaScript.
 Content such as: formatted dates, links where filters are run server-side
 (e.g. edit link), truncated content, etc. Script localization, porting
 functions to JavaScript, and newer browser features like
 [[https://developer.mozilla.org/en-
 US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/DateTimeFormat|Intl.DateTimeFormat]]
 (with appropriate fallbacks) can help achieve these. Other content might
 require filters on the API endpoints return values themselves.
 - Quick Draft already requires JavaScript anyways, but it's worth
 consideration for if and how content should be rendered "isomorphically"
 (i.e. complete markup sent from the server, but thereafter controlled in
 the browser). This could help remedy the need for placeholders as the
 script loads, but the state of tooling is such that the logic would need
 to be duplicated to implement (rendering in PHP/Backbone, querying from
 REST API/WP_Query).

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