Breeze is a cool framework to make REST calls from the client side. To better explain Andrew Connal’s blog explains in details http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog/getting-breezejs-to-work-with-the-sharepoint-2013-rest-api.
The only problem is that it can not do the cross domain calls so the lists on the host web can not work for this sample. (Please correct me if I am wrong)