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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 pin as a standalone component

Let's take a deep dive and look at how exactly each GPIO pin on the Pi works. Each pin has two functions, which are what make up the IO in GPIO. Each pin can write binary values (and by values, what I mean is it can give an output between 0 and 3.3v) and also read binary values.

The Write mode

In the Write mode, the Raspberry Pi acts as a switch and a power source.

This diagram represents the hello world of circuits, that is, an LED along with a resistor connected to a power source. An important thing to remember is that any GPIO pin needs a reference, relative to which it can be high or low.

The Raspberry Pi can act as either end of this circuit and has two different ways of being an...