How IoT is changing the course of web development

While, for most people, the changes brought by IoT will be experienced via smart devices, it’s important to realize that IoT is also having a huge impact on software and web developers.

Linking web development to IoT might not seem like an obvious step but let me explain. IoT devices rely on web servers, and the data they produce is stored in the cloud. Most of these devices communicate with each other via web protocols, and the UIs used to interact with them are normally built using web development tools.

In addition, many IoT devices use the internet actively. Plenty of these devices, such as those used in smart TVs and wearables, can display web pages. Others, like Amazon’s Echo, use bespoke browsers to extract information from the web in response to user queries. For all these reasons, the rise of IoT is changing the way that web developers work. In this article, we’ll take a look at the keyways that it is doing that... Read more