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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

Retrieving Sensor Readings from the Server

In the previous chapter, we managed to get hands-on with interfacing our sensors with the Raspberry Pi's GPIO pins and were able to get the temperature and humidity readings of the surroundings. However, we still require a way to get this information to our users. After all, information is useless if nobody can see it. Another interesting concept that we saw was that our sensor was digital and not analog, which meant that it sent us information in the form of multiple bits at a regular interval, as opposed to analog sensors whose current we can read in real time. While the interval in which our sensor takes reading is more or less real time, it poses unique problems when we couple it with on-demand readings.

In this chapter, you will learn how to integrate our sensor readings, which we obtained in Chapter 4, Extracting Information...