Dynamic Resources

Static resources and their limitations

Previously, we looked at serving static resources, in particular index.html and favicon.ico. These are the things a browser can deal with: it can show an HTML page and use the favicon.ico as a visual icon inside the browser tab.

However, if all we could do was return .html files and images to the browser, we could never build an actual web application. A .html file can’t do the following:

• It cannot process data that a user provides by