We will begin our journey to create an IoT home security dashboard by learning how to use the CherryPy web server framework. Our chapter will start by introducing CherryPy. We will go through a few examples before we create an HTML weather dashboard using a modified version of our CurrentWeather class from Chapter 4, Subscribing to Web Services.
The following topics will be covered in this chapter:
- Introducing CherryPy—a minimalist Python Web framework
- Creating a simple web page using CherryPy