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Espruino is a JavaScript interpreter for low-power Microcontrollers. This site is both a support community for Espruino and a place to share what you are working on.
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I'm honestly still having trouble understanding what this is, or rather, where it fits in... yet other people seem to get it and think it's cool...
Can anyone help me out here? Assume I have a location, and I've got some sensors and some devices that I want to control over the network. Presently, what I would do is put an ESP8266 or Espruino+ESP8266 node near each pile of devices, and program them to have a page that returns status as json, and takes commands via a GET request (eg, 192.168.2.19/ICBM/launch.cmd ), and then to tie everything together, I'd put a page on the webserver stuffed behind the bookshelf in the living room that brought all these controls together on one page, and drove everything with XHRs (using the PHP cache module to store semi-persistent information like when it last talked to sensors or whatever).
So considering that example, what would be different if I was using this?