Galileo Tutorial Networking and node SenZations（伽利略SenZations教程网络和节点）.pdfVIP

Galileo Tutorial Networking and node.js Senzations 2014 Jason Wright Biograd na Moru 1 Galileo Tutorial – I/Os, Sensing and Actuation WHAT WILL YOU MAKE? Learning goals • Basics of node.js • why how it’s useful • server/client networking • How to deploy a node.js server on Galileo • Interacting with Galileo through the browser • Reading and displaying sensor data 2 Galileo Tutorial – I/Os, Sensing and Actuation WHAT WILL YOU MAKE? What is node.js? • node.js (or just node) is a JavaScript runtime designed for lightweight server applications • It is not a full webserver (e.g. Apache, nginx) • The incoming request handler is single-threaded instead of multi- threaded request request request request request request thread request request thread thread thread thread Traditional server node.js server 3 Galileo Tutorial – I/Os, Sensing and Actuation WHAT WILL YOU MAKE? Why use node.js? • Consistent: Server/client language and data representations are the same • Scalable: Single-threaded architecture minimizes memory usage and avoids cost of context-switching between threads • Problem: What if one client is computationally demanding? • Problem: What if there’s a core exception? • Fast (at certain things) • node is especially useful if I/O is likely to be your bottleneck (i.e., your server isn’t doing that much) • examples: queued inputs, dat