Daniel Bachhuber, a core contributor for a number of years, has just this Call to Action on the WordPress Core blog:
As you may know, Gutenberg uses the WordPress REST API as a bridge between the land of JavaScript and land of PHP. There were a whole host of conceptual challenges in translating WordPress internals to REST — and even more we still haven’t solved!
This is key because as a WordPress integration agency these type of “conceptual challenges” are what we need to be on top of when delivering our projects and WordPress support retainer services.
The post also linked to the GitHub Milestone for ‘REST API’ in the Gutenberg editor where a number of development tasks are open for discussion and assignment.
