[brightball]

I never understood that terminology since the middleware was always on the server too.

[elliotec]

It can be on the client side. Middleware just means something between the operations of the application on a server and operations of the application on a client. Doesn't matter where it sits, it's just the link.

But to the parent comment, yes, I agree, this is a middleware.

[macintux]

I thought of middleware as sitting on one server, with the database behind it typically on another.

[brightball]

Yea, I've seen that often. Some people would call any server side code middleware.