Interesting fact! Did you know the average smartphone today has more computing power than all of NASA had when people first landed on the Moon. Today, there are fewer and fewer functional areas that cannot be satisfied with the client's computing power alone and require backend computing capacity.
Here at Flybase, we are huge fans of building static websites. The power of a client-side site using Javascript is huge, and Flybase helps make that even more powerful.
I mean, just look at what you can do these days using frameworks such as Angular.js, Backbone, React, Ember or just plain vanilla Javascript and HTML. Thanks to Flybase and other tools, you can write to databases, read from databases, handle authentication, everything you need right from the client-side in real-time...