There's other advantages to separating it, like: 1) if you make your api public then you dogfooding ensures it's robust and functional and full-featured 2) if

There's other advantages to separating it, like: 1) if you make your api public then you dogfooding ensures it's robust and functional and full-featured 2) if your front end is static, you can throw it up on amazon s3 or I'm playing with a static site hosting service I found here on hn called http://netlify.com http://netlify.com, you never have to worry about how much traffic that part will get. 3) you can bundle your html interface for mobile apps