How to connect with server side database using pure html5?

Question

Can we access server side database using pure html5 (i.e. without using PHP, ASP.... or any other backend language) ? We can use web sql database, but that is stored on client side. I need to access server side database (maybe mysql or any other).

Answer 1

HTML5 is just a static document, so it can't access a server, but you can use JavaScript for that. No, you can not access a server-side MySQL database from a web browser without server side scripts, since MySQL doesn't provide a http-interface directly.

If you don't want to learn a common server side language, you could use Node.js to be able to use JavaScript on the server side.