Good feedback. What I'm aiming for (and trying to see if there are others that this resonates with), is a higher level of abstraction for HTML5-centric application development.

There's a lot to learn to build applications that span database/web server/client - so I'm trying to build a "generic" backend, and let the application developer concentrate on the client side only.

Maybe it's really only applicable to "toy" or "prototype" applications. Like this one, for example:

http://wiki.pageforest.com/