Document element access, lookup, and iteration of json_view

- API pages for operator[], at, front, back, find, contains, count,
  begin, end, cbegin, cend, items, and type_name of basic_json_view,
  linked both ways with the basic_json pages
- the feature page and size() describe document order and duplicate
  keys
- the examples show when the view helps: reading a few fields of a large
  text, probing optional members, and members in source order

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
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# <small>nlohmann::basic_json_view::</small>cbegin
```cpp
iterator cbegin() const noexcept;
```
Returns an iterator to the first element, in [document order](begin.md). Equivalent to [`begin()`](begin.md): a view
is always read-only, so `#!cpp const_iterator` and `#!cpp iterator` are the same type, and `cbegin()` exists only so
that generic code that expects a `cbegin()`/`cend()` pair works with a view too.
## Return value
Iterator to the first element; identical to what [`begin()`](begin.md) returns.
## Exception safety
No-throw guarantee: this function never throws exceptions.
## Complexity
Constant.
## Examples
??? example
The example below sums many measurements with `std::accumulate`, using `cbegin()`/[`cend()`](cend.md) as the
range -- the same way it would for any standard container -- without ever materializing the whole array into a
`BasicJsonType` value.
```cpp
--8<-- "examples/basic_json_view__cbegin.cpp"
```
Output:
```json
--8<-- "examples/basic_json_view__cbegin.output"
```
## See also
- [begin](begin.md) - returns an iterator to the first element
- [cend](cend.md) - returns a const iterator to one past the last element
- [`BasicJsonType::cbegin`](../basic_json/cbegin.md) - the corresponding function of `basic_json`
## Version history
- Added in version 3.13.0.