JavaScript for Line of Business Applications

This article describes how on{X} is used in conjunction with Node, Express, and Socket.IO to control web pages from an Android device.

I had lost my phone. I left it on a couch in a shopping mall and returned back to find it gone. Someone had been gifted a new phone via the awful art of stealing. I sent JavaScript code remotely to my phone over the web that sent me the coordinates of the device any time I texted it. I tracked it to a Sizzler restaurant until they turned the phone off and it disappeared forever. I bought myself a new phone but saw new potential in a powerful app I’d barely used until that point called on{X}.

In this article I’ll be sharing a very different use of the app compared to the horror story of my lost phone. I’d like to show you how you can use your Android device to send remote instructions to a live web page. I’ll be using the example of remote controlling a HTML presentation but the concepts can be expanded to do any number of interesting things.

enteye is a first fully reactive Device Cloud that easily allows developers to integrate devices with a web application. You can program your boards directly from the browser, with automatic code pushes and real time data synchronisation. Based on the rapidly growing Meteor Framework it allows to change any real life thing into a reactive data source. Now your applications can have new senses that leads to totally new possibilities.