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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

The GPIO pins on the Pi

Each Pi (models A+, B+, 2B, and 3B) comes with a total of 40 pins. These can be either GPIO pins or they can have some other function, as shown in the following diagram:

The 3.3V and 5V pins act only as a power supply and nothing else. We cannot control them with the Pi. Similarly, the ground pin acts as the negative terminal of this power supply. The GPIO pins are where all the action takes place since we can control them as well as read from them programmatically. The ID EEPROM pins are meant for more advanced usage and should not be manipulated unless you know exactly what you are doing.

The numbers on the pins may seem haphazard, and they are, but this is how the computer sees them. So when we refer to pin 2, we are actually referring to the one numbered 2 in the previous diagram.

Note that, throughout this book, the pin numbers we refer to are according...