Nano + ESP8266 control pins with REST API I connected and flashed successfully an ESP8266 module to a Nano. Now I want to control pins values with a REST API, but all the libraries I found are for using standalone ESP8266 modules (without Arduino) or for Arduino with some other modules like CC3000 etc. Can anybody recommend a library please?
You can use Firmata to control the Arduino pins, just having the ESP8266 publish a web page exposing the Firmata operations you desire to expose and sending the user actions to the Arduino via serial using the Firmata protocol.

To make your life easier you can consider your ESP8266 an equivalent of your serial console: everything you write from the ESP82667 becomes input data on the console for your Arduino and the other way around.

In Firmata, each command can be read from a generic Stream, with Serial being the default implementation.