Soham Kamani - Full Stack Web Development with Raspberry Pi 3

BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI

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First published: August 2017

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ISBN 978-1-78829-589-5

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Soham Kamani is a full-stack developer who has extensive experience in the JavaScript ecosystem. He works as a consultant, developing end-to-end web-based solutions for clients around the world. He is an open source enthusiast and an avid blogger. He has worked on many frameworks and technologies such as React, Angular, Node, Express, Sails, SQLite, Postgres, and MySQL, and he has worked on many projects in the IoT space using Arduino and Raspberry Pi systems.

Avron Bernard Olshewsky is an entrepreneurial technologist with a background in server-side telecommunication software engineering. Since 2006, he has worked as a founder, advisor, and consultant for technology start-up companies and small businesses. He has over 20 years of commercial software engineering experience, developing and leading innovative software solutions. In addition to advising start-ups on technology viability, architecture, specification, the resources required, funding, and roadmap, he has also been involved with long-established companies such as T-Mobile, Motorola, and IBM in various engineering capacities.

Krishnaraj Varma is a software professional and a tech enthusiast from Kerala, India. Primarily a software architect and a programmer, he started programming in the 90s in DBMS such as dBase and Clipper. After that, he started coding in C and C++ and continues to do so because of his vast interest in these languages. His areas of expertise are Internet of Things, Big Data, real-time streaming pipelines.

Apart from coding and technology, he is interested in nature, movies, and music.

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Just a few decades back, the average computer was the size of an entire city block and could barely store 5 MB of data. Today, this amount of data is consumed by an average image upload, and the dimensions of the modern computer have reached a stage where we can hold one on the palm of our hands. Alongside the reduction in size, computers have also undergone a tremendous reduction in cost. Raspberry Pi is the flag bearer of portable and affordable computing, barely costing $30 and being small enough to be held in your hand.

The introduction of Raspberry Pi has opened the doors for applications that would not have been feasible otherwise, and that is precisely what you will learn from this book.

In the chapters to follow, you will learn how Raspberry Pi can be utilized to its full potential and act as a sensor interface, a web server, and a database and host all the components of a fully functioning web application. You will also learn how to utilize cloud-based APIs and data storage and combine this with the existing components developed on Raspberry Pi to make an application that can accessed by anyone with an internet connection.

, Getting Started on the Raspberry Pi , takes a brief look at Raspberry Pi, its OS, and how to get started using it

, Getting Up-and-Running with Web Development on the Raspberry Pi, covers a high-level overview of the project that we will build and the different components of its technology stack.