It should be safe to say that the vast majority of developers know what REST is. A three-tier web application consists of the following:
- Presentation layer (HTML and CSS)
- Business logic layer (application code)
- Data layer (Relational Database Management System or another type of data store)
The three-tier web application is extremely well known and one of the most common designs on the web today. Readers are likely familiar with this design when thinking about a web application's static content (that is, HTML, JavaScript, and CSS) which are served from a content delivery network (CDN), which talks to a RESTful API hosted on a web server, which, in turn, talks to a database.
In this chapter, we will go through the process of building a three-tier web application using HTML, JavaScript, and CSS for our presentation layer, a REST...
