This is a quick article to show you how you can open the edit page experience from your SharePoint Framework solution. Such a trigger could be useful so that you can trigger the page its edit mode from within your web part, footer, …
Nothing more to say about it, so here is the code:
Here is an example of what you could expect:

When the page is checked out to someone else, you SharePoint lets you know who is editing it:

Other actions
Other actions like saving, publishing and discarding are also availble:
- _api/sitepages/pages({id})/SavePageAsDraft
- _api/sitepages/pages({id})/DiscardPage
- _api/sitepages/pages({id})/SavePage