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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

Client-side implementation

Now that the server side is completed, the client-side script needs to be modified to accommodate the new functionality that has been added:

    /**
     * First, define a function that will initialize the 
socket connection and add listeners * to the required events */
const addSocketListeners = () => { /** * The "io" constructor is available to us after
including the socket.io library script in the "index.html" file * Initializing the socket connection is as easy as the
statement below */
const socket = io() /** * An event listener is attached to the "new-
temperature" event * The handler is similar to the handler that was attached
to the GET /temperature API, so in essence, we are
replacing the API call with the socket event...