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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

Summary

This chapter started off with an introduction to the Firebase platform and the tools that it offers. It then went on to look at how our each tool that this platform provides would fit into our application's architecture.

After describing a new architecture to accommodate cloud-based APIs, we took a deep dive on migrating some of our code into it. This involved creating our first Firebase application, removing some of our older code, and introducing new code using the Firebase client side API to connect to the platform's cloud-based Realtime Database.

Overall, we completed the connection from client side to the cloud in this chapter. In the next chapter, we will be looking at how to link the other side of our application (sitting on the Raspberry Pi) to Firebase and thus enable our dashboard to show us actual sensor readings from our Pi, anywhere in the world...