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Full Stack Web Development with Raspberry Pi 3

By : Kamani
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Full Stack Web Development with Raspberry Pi 3

By: 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 application process architecture

Our application has many pieces--a lot of them new, and some borrowed from the previous implementations:

  • Firebase admin SDK: This module is provided by Firebase, and acts as the interface between our server application and the Firebase cloud APIs. We are going to be modifying our data using this SDK, which will also make use of the key we downloaded in the previous section to authorize the API call.
  • Core module: This is the core module of the application process, which will be responsible for initializing the Firebase SDK and updating the Realtime Database every time new readings come in. This will also be the starting point of the application.
  • Sensor module: This module is borrowed from the previous implementations, and does not need to be changed. It will function the same way it was functioning before, with the purpose of obtaining readings...