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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

Running our first node program

Node is a JavaScript runtime, which means that it is an environment on top of which you can execute your JavaScript code. It is recommended that you make a new folder for all project files that we will use throughout this book.
Managing all the project files can be done with either of these ways:

  • Using your favorite text editor application on the Raspberry Pi (if you are using the Raspberry Pi's desktop)
  • Using one of the Terminal editors, such as vi or nano. This can be done on SSH or through the Raspberry Pi Terminal application.
  • Editing files on a repository on your own computer and pushing changes to the Pi using a version control management tool like Git.

The last method is the most efficient and also the least error-prone. In fact, I feel it's appropriate to take a brief diversion to set it up so that we can work with a much clearer...