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Developing IoT Projects with ESP32

You're reading from   Developing IoT Projects with ESP32 Unlock the full Potential of ESP32 in IoT development to create production-grade smart devices

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803237688
Length 578 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Vedat Ozan Oner Vedat Ozan Oner
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to IoT development and the ESP32 platform 2. Understanding the Development Tools FREE CHAPTER 3. Using ESP32 Peripherals 4. Employing Third-Party Libraries in ESP32 Projects 5. Project – Audio Player 6. Using Wi-Fi Communication for Connectivity 7. ESP32 Security Features for Production-Grade Devices 8. Connecting to Cloud Platforms and Using Services 9. Project – Smart Home 10. Machine Learning with ESP32 11. Developing on Edge Impulse 12. Project – Baby Monitor 13. Other Books You May Enjoy
14. Index

Running a RESTful server on ESP32

Representational State Transfer (REST) is basically the client-server architecture for the web. It defines how a client and server communicate over a resource that the server exposes. In fact, we know it from the HTTP protocol as it implements the entire World Wide Web (WWW) document exchange services. A RESTful server publishes a REST API and clients consume it. A client sends a message, such as GET, POST, PUT, or DELETE, to the server for a resource, and the server replies to the client with an HTTP status code, such as 200 OK, 201 Created, or 404 Not Found. There exist many RESTful services on the internet; therefore, REST communication occupies an important place in IoT development. Mozilla provides many articles about HTTP here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP

We can employ ESP32 as either a RESTful server or a client. When it is a server, we run an HTTP server on ESP32, define resources, and provide handlers for the HTTP...

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