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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

Summary

With this chapter, we finally gave our application a memory ability greater than that of a goldfish, and we finally have a place to permanently store all the readings that we record.

We started off by studying how to interface SQLite3 using node. This was core to our application since all the other application code would depend on it. After we figured out the basics, we managed to create a module that specialized in reading and writing to our database. We then went on to use this module to enhance the rest of our application and finally remove the annoying phenomenon of disappearing charts.

Finally, we moved on to adding two completely new features: showing a range of readings between dates provided by the user and showing the average of temperatures in this range.

It looks like we have covered all the parts of the web application stack that we discussed in Chapter 1,...