When Porgs Scream at Webpack and Other Stories
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Three concrete pipelines for using JavaScript with hardware: control devices via cloud APIs or MQTT (example: an esp8266 ($2) subscribing to a broker), run Node on a host and drive microcontrollers with Johnny-Five (the porg is soldered to an optocoupler on pin 4 and yells when a webpack build fails), or run JS on-device with interpreters or boards (Tessel, Espruino, JerryScript). A coffee machine is retrofitted with relays and a REST endpoint implementing RFC 2324; the demos work live.
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