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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

Deploying our application to Firebase

Everything we did up to this point was restricted to the confines of the Raspberry Pi hardware. Although the Pi is a marvel of engineering in and of itself, it still comes with some limitations due to its small size. While hosting small-scale personal applications should not be much cause for concern, it would not be efficient to host a large-scale application entirely on the Pi.

In addition to this, letting others access your application would be another challenge altogether. How does one ensure that their Pi is always online when people need it? How can we take the load of multiple users without compromising our hardware? How can we ensure that the connectivity from the Pi (which is running in our home) is seamless to someone trying to access it potentially across the world?

The answer to all these questions is that it is nearly impossible...