A Web Application Generator for Embedded Devices with HTML5 and JavaScript
Date Issued
2015
Date
2015
Author(s)
Huang, Yi-Hsuan
Abstract
The portability of applications in embedded devices has become complex for application designers because of the diversity of embedded devices. Simplifying programming models becomes an important issue in recent years. Web applications, instead of traditional embedded software, have attracted attentions in embedded systems community because hardware can be controlled more flexibility thanks to new features of HTML5 and JavaScript. In this work, we implement a programming aided system, called WAGED (Web Application Generator for Embedded Devices), which can generate web applications for embedded devices. We combine visual programming concepts, HTML5 features and RWD (Responsive Web Design) and code generation techniques to design the system. The WAGED system uses template-based code generation techniques to generate web applications code (including HTML, CSS and JavaScript). The application can be deployed on embedded devices over the Node.js environment. Using the system, application designers can create web applications that can interact with users and control hardware and focus on their design without spending too much time to consider how to build the web server. The WAGED system provides an interactive graphic user interface (GUI) for the customizing structure of web applications accessing end devices.
Subjects
HTML5
JavaScript
Node.js,code generation
Type
thesis