In this chapter, we've gone from exclusively server-generated HTML presentations to dynamic presentations that utilize an API. We've examined the basics of REST and implemented a RESTful interface for our blogging application.

While this can use a lot more client-side polish, we have GET/POST/PUT requests that are functional and allow us to create, retrieve, and update comments for our blog posts.

In Chapter 6, Session and Cookies, we'll examine user authentication, sessions, and cookies, and how we can take the building blocks we've laid in this chapter and apply some very important security parameters to it. We had an open-ended creation and updates of comments in this chapter; we'll restrict that to unique users in the next.

In doing all of this, we'll turn our proof-of-concept comment management into something that can be used in production practically.