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Full Stack Web Development with Raspberry Pi 3

By : Soham Kamani
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Full Stack Web Development with Raspberry Pi 3

By: Soham Kamani

Overview of this book

Modern web technology and portable computing together have enabled huge advances in the Internet of Things (IoT) space,as well as in areas such as machine learning and big data. The Raspberry Pi is a very popular portable computer for running full stack web applications. This book will empower you to master this rapidly evolving technology to develop complex web applications and interfaces. This book starts by familiarizing you with the various components that make up the web development stack and that will integrate into your Raspberry Pi-powered web applications. It also introduces the Raspberry Pi computer and teach you how to get up and running with a brand new one. Next, this book introduces you to the different kinds of sensor you’ll use to make your applications; using these skills, you will be able to create full stack web applications and make them available to users via a web interface. Later, this book will also teach you how to build interactive web applications using JavaScript and HTML5 for the visual representation of sensor data. Finally, this book will teach you how to use a SQLite database to store and retrieve sensor data from multiple Raspberry Pi computers. By the end of this book you will be able to create complex full stack web applications on the Raspberry Pi 3 and will have improved your application’s performance and usability.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Getting Up-and-Running with Web Development on the Raspberry Pi

Running a Node Server on the Pi

In the previous chapters, we discussed the different layers of the web application technology stack. One of these layers was the middleware layer, which plays an important role in coordinating all the other layers of our application. In order for our application to be robust and available, we must ensure that we use the right technology for the job. Node.js has proved to be a great fit for our use case. Its asynchronous nature matches our requirements of quick and uninterrupted communication between the different layers of our stack.

This chapter covers the basics of running a server application on your Raspberry Pi and includes the following:

  • Installing the node on the Raspberry Pi
  • The node package manager (npm) and library installation
  • Deploying and running a node server on the Raspberry Pi