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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

Extending our application

The first step in enhancing our application is to have it deliver HTML instead of plain text.
HTML is the markup language of the web, which is used to give a web page its structure. In essence, it's just a bunch of tags that give meaning to the text.

For example, the current output from the temperature API is 26°C. Although it gives us the information we need, it would be more meaningful to highlight the actual value more than the unit. An output of 26°C looks better than our plain text version.

Let's translate this into HTML. We have the strong tag, which is used to give emphasis to the text by making it thicker than usual.

The standard format of HTML tags is as follows:

    <tag>text</tag>

Here, we replace tag with the name of our tag. If we wanted to make only the value bolder, we would write this:

    <strong&gt...
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