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Why would you want to write a dashboard from scratch every time? Foxycart used HAL for their API, and when they'd finished they pointed the browser at it and instantly had a browsable API.. for free.

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Well, companies seem to like to brand their dashboards, emphasise different aspects and so on. But still, I agree it would be really cool if you could use the same API browser everywhere, to avoid crappy dashboards, and that HAL would could enable that.

How can I point the HAL browser at foxycart's API? Or even see Foxycart's browser? I can only find standard hand-written documentation.

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