You're reading from Practical Node-RED Programming Learn powerful visual programming techniques and best practices for the web and IoT

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800201590

Length 326 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

Node-Red

Concepts

Server Side Web Development

Author (1):

Taiji Hagino

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Node-RED Basics

2. Chapter 1: Introducing Node-RED and Flow-Based Programming FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Setting Up the Development Environment

4. Chapter 3: Understanding Node-RED Characteristics by Creating Basic Flows

5. Chapter 4: Learning the Major Nodes

6. Section 2: Mastering Node-RED

7. Chapter 5: Implementing Node-RED Locally

8. Chapter 6: Implementing Node-RED in the Cloud

9. Chapter 7: Calling a Web API from Node-RED

10. Chapter 8: Using the Project Feature with Git

11. Section 3: Practical Matters

12. Chapter 9: Creating a ToDo Application with Node-RED

13. Chapter 10: Handling Sensor Data on the Raspberry Pi

14. Chapter 11: Visualize Data by Creating a Server-Side Application in the IBM Cloud

15. Chapter 12: Developing a Chatbot Application Using Slack and IBM Watson

16. Chapter 13: Creating and Publishing Your Own Node on the Node-RED Library

17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Appendix: Node-RED User Community

Learning about the RESTful API

Many of you reading this book may already be familiar with web APIs. However, let's review the RESTful API in order to call a web API with Node-RED.

REST stands for Representational State Transfer. RESTful API basically refers to the invocation interface in HTTP of a web system that is implemented according to "REST principles." So, in a broad sense, it's safe to say that the REST API and RESTful API are the same things. So, what exactly is the RESTful API? We will learn the outline and principles of the RESTful API, and the advantages and disadvantages of using the RESTful API, in this section.

REST was proposed by Roy Fielding, one of the HTTP protocol creators, around the year 2000, and is a set (or way of thinking) of design principles suitable for linking multiple software when building a distributed application. In addition, the RESTful API is an API designed according to the following four REST principles: