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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

Chapter 6: Implementing Node-RED in the Cloud

In this chapter, we will learn how to utilize Node-RED, which can be used standalone on a cloud platform (mainly Platform as a Service). Platform as a Service (PaaS) provides an instance that acts as the execution environment for an application, and the application developers only focus on executing the application created by themselves without using their power to build the environment. Node-RED is actually a Node.js application, so you can run it wherever you have a runtime environment for Node.js.

There are various major mega clouds such as Azure, AWS, and GCP, but Node-RED is prepared as a Starter App (a web application that can be launched on IBM Cloud is called a Starter App) by default in IBM Cloud, so we will use it in this chapter.

In this chapter, we'll cover the following topics: