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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

The Firebase platform

Getting full-scale applications up and running fast and bug-free is surprisingly hard. First, you have to provision your server, then your database, then your UI, and then you've to make sure all components integrate with each other correctly (which is the hardest part). This gets even harder when you want to introduce more advanced functionality, such as authentication, notifications, real-time updates, and encryption.

The Firebase platform solves this pain point by giving us all this out of the box:

  • The Realtime Database is a tool to store and manage an applications persistent data as well as notify us when anything changes.
  • Firebase hosting allows us to move all our frontend static assets to the cloud so that they can be delivered to users across the globe with speed and security.
  • Performance monitoring and analytics give us in-depth information...