Another advantage to this is that you can have other types of clients in parallel. For example a native iOS app could call the API directly. This native app co

Another advantage to this is that you can have other types of clients in parallel. For example a native iOS app could call the API directly. This native app could be made with client side web tech and packaged with PhoneGap. Would also be interesting to try to implement the client in such a way that it both can run on the server (in node js, outputting static pages to browsers) and also as a pure client side web app, packaged with PhoneGap.