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Practical Internet of Things with JavaScript

You're reading from   Practical Internet of Things with JavaScript Build standalone exciting IoT projects with Raspberry Pi 3 and JavaScript (ES5/ES6)

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788292948
Length 296 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Arvind Ravulavaru Arvind Ravulavaru
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Building the IFTTT rules engine


Now that we are sending the required data to the API engine, we will be doing two things:

  1. Showing data that we got from the smart wearable on the web, desktop, and mobile apps
  2. Executing rules on top of the data

We will get started with the second objective first. We will be building a rules engine to execute rules based on the data we have received.

Let's get started by creating a folder named ifttt at the root of the api-engine/server folder. Inside the ifttt folder, create a file named rules.json. Update api-engine/server/ifttt/rules.json, as follows:

[{ 
    "device": "b8:27:eb:39:92:0d", 
    "rules": [ 
    { 
        "if": 
        { 
            "prop": "fall", 
            "cond": "eq", 
            "valu": 1 
        }, 
        "then": 
        { 
            "action": "EMAIL", 
            "to": "arvind.ravulavaru@gmail.com" 
        } 
    }] 
}] 

As you can see from the preceding code, we are maintaining a JSON file with all of our rules. In our scenario...

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