[TYPO3-dev] Headless TYPO3 CMS (e.g. RESTful API)

[Michael Schams]

Hi TYPO3 devs.

Several of our larger corporate clients have begun to ask us what the 
mid to long term plans are for APIs in TYPO3. A "headless" CMS could 
provide and receive structured data via a RESTful API for example.

They are looking at projects in Drupal [1] and WordPress [2][3] and 
wonder if there are similar plans for TYPO3.

We see a move to use a range of APIs across businesses in a strategic 
way and are a little bit concerned that content management systems that 
don't provide an API could fall behind their competitors.

We have looked at the TYPO3 extension EXT:rest [4] and while it seems to 
do much of what is required, we would like to know if there are any 
plans, initiatives or projects to implement such a functionality in the 
core?


Cheers
Michael

[1] 
http://blog.openlucius.com/en/blog/headless-drupal-why-how-restful-api-drupal
[2] http://wp-api.org/#rest-api
[3] http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/wordpress-rest-api/
[4] http://rest.cundd.net/