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Full Stack Web Development with Raspberry Pi 3

You're reading from   Full Stack Web Development with Raspberry Pi 3 Build complex web applications with a portable computer

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788295895
Length 214 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Soham Kamani Soham Kamani
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started on the Raspberry Pi FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Up-and-Running with Web Development on the Raspberry Pi 3. Running a Node Server on the Pi 4. Extracting Information from the GPIO Pins 5. Retrieving Sensor Readings from the Server 6. Creating a Web Page to Display Sensor Data 7. Enhancing Our UI - Using Interactive Charts 8. SQLite - The Fast and Portable Database 9. Integrating SQLite into Our Application 10. Making our Application Real Time with Web Sockets 11. Deploying our application to Firebase 12. Using Firebase APIs to Update Our Application

Summary

Throughout this chapter, we modified almost all aspects of our code in order to make it more data friendly.

First, you learned the basics of the Chart.js library. We also reasoned about why we are choosing Chart.js over other similar libraries. We went on to make a sample chart using this library, to be used in the later part of the chapter to integrate with out sensor readings.

To prepare for this, the server was made more data friendly through the use of JSON responses. Our frontend was then optimized to utilize these responses.

We finally made use of Chart.js' ranging and data animation features to make our charts look more to scale and to make them dynamic with respect to displaying new data.

Our frontend now looks much richer and more like a fully featured dashboard. However, there are still a few features that we are missing. If you notice, every time we refresh...

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