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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

Visually enhancing the UI

Our UI works, and we have async XHR calls going for us, but it still feels like something is missing, probably because our UI just looks very plain:

In this section, we will use HTML and CSS to make it look a lot better. We will also establish a layout structure that we can then use through out the next chapters as well.

When deciding a layout for the applications UI, it's always better to make a rough structure before you jump into coding:

Our overall application will have a title bar and two displays to display the temperature and humidity.

We can drill-down into the details of each display:

  • We want each sensor display to show the physical quantity that it is measuring, its value, and its unit.
  • We want to emphasize the value of the reading more than anything else, so we make it the largest.
    • The quantity and unit are more or less fixed and...
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