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Practical Internet of Things with JavaScript

By : Arvind Ravulavaru
Book Image

Practical Internet of Things with JavaScript

By: Arvind Ravulavaru

Overview of this book

In this world of technology upgrades, IoT is currently leading with its promise to make the world a more smarter and efficient place. This book will show you how to build simple IoT solutions that will help you to understand how this technology works. We would not only explore the IoT solution stack, but we will also see how to do it with the world’s most misunderstood programming language - JavaScript. Using Raspberry Pi 3 and JavaScript (ES5/ES6) as the base to build all the projects, you will begin with learning about the fundamentals of IoT and then build a standard framework for developing all the applications covered in this book. You will then move on to build a weather station with temperature, humidity and moisture sensors and further integrate Alexa with it. Further, you will build a smart wearable for understanding the concept of fall detection. You will then extend it with the 'If This Then That' (IFTTT) rules engine to send an email on fall detection. Finally, you will be working with the Raspberry Pi 3 camera module and surveillance with a bit of facial detection using Amazon Rekognition platform. At the end of the book, you will not only be able to build standalone exciting IoT applications but also learn how you can extend your projects to another level.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface

Building the desktop app and implementing an end-to-end flow


Now that we are done with an end-to-end flow with the web app, we will extend the same to the desktop and mobile apps. We will start off by building a desktop client for the same API engine. So, if a user is more comfortable in using a desktop app over a web or mobile app, he/she could use this.

This desktop app, we will have all the same features as the web app.

For building the desktop app, we will use the electron (https://electron.atom.io/) framework. Using a Yeoman (http://yeoman.io/) generator named generator-electron (https://github.com/sindresorhus/generator-electron), we will scaffold the base application. Then, we will build our web app and use the dist folder from that build as an input to the desktop app. All this will be more clear once we start working.

To get started, run the following command:

npm install yo generator-electron -g

This will install the yeoman generator and the electron generator. Next, inside the chapter2...