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Full Stack Web Development with Raspberry Pi 3

By : Soham Kamani
Book Image

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

Enhancing Our UI - Using Interactive Charts

An important thing to note during the development of any application is that the experience of the user is paramount. In the end, all we are really doing when we make applications is valuing our users' time. If we manage to save the user some effort in thinking or understanding some piece of data, we know we are moving in the right direction.

In the previous chapter, this is exactly what we were focusing on by combining the temperature and humidity readings into a single interface and, after that, by highlighting the relevant pieces of information through the modification of size and color by using CSS.

In this chapter, we will be continuing with the concept of user experience improvement by introducing advanced UI elements such as charts, which will help us interpret and understand the data even further.

Here's what we will...