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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

Considerations when implementing complex features

When it comes to building complex features in any software application, it often boils down to two options:

  • Building each feature from scratch, thoroughly testing and integrating it into your application
  • Using an existing library that has already taken care of the preceding point

Each option has its own trade-offs. If we decide to implement a feature and build it from scratch, we will have full control over what happens, and can customize it the way we like without any dependency. However, we must also take into consideration the time and effort that we will have to spend in building it. Even after spending months, there may still be scenarios and optimizations that we did not think of. These will, of course, be fixed as time passes, but this is time that could be spent elsewhere.

In contrast, we have numerous libraries available...