IoT Development for ESP32 and ESP8266 with JavaScript: A Practical Guide to XS and the Moddable SDK

© Peter Hoddie and Lizzie Prader 2020

P. Hoddie, L. PraderIoT Development for ESP32 and ESP8266 with JavaScripthttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5070-9_1

1. Getting Started

Peter Hoddie¹  and Lizzie Prader¹

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Menlo Park, CA, USA

 

This chapter takes you through gathering all the hardware and software required for this book and running your first JavaScript application on a microcontroller. Along the way, the chapter also shows how to use the helpful features of xsbug, the JavaScript source-level debugger.

Installing all the software tools and setting up your development environment takes a little time, but once you can run one example you’ll be ready to run any example in this book. You’ll also have everything you need to begin writing your own applications ...