mongoose

To anybody interested in ESP8266 and JavaScript, shameless plug: https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose-iot It can also be used as a replacement SDK for C development. In addition to the stock ESP8266 SDK it offers a filesystem, configuration infrastructure, async networking library (using the github.com/cesanta/mongoose networking library), OTA update support, coredumps, easy to use toolchain based on docker, improved (faster) flashing tool. And you can also enable the JavaScript scripting engine and script your firmware. We're also supporting other platforms such as the cc3200 so it will enable you to easily change the target; some platforms are good for prototyping, some are better for production; often it's impossible to choose wisely at the beginning so it's nice to not require a full rewrite of your logic.

Smart.js is based on two projects: - V7: a small portable JS VM (https://github.com/cesanta/v7) - mongoose: a portable async multiprotocol networking library (https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose) Both of those projects are independent and have some traction on their own; but you're right that we should make it more explicit. Mongoose is out there since 2004 and is a quite popular embedded http server. We added many other protocols to it, including also COAP and DNS. Arduino libs are not used because they are not async and not portable. Honestly I don't know about node-red, sounds interesting; however node's V8 VM is too heavyweight for the smallest devices we aim to support. Smart.js does expose a nodejs-compatible core API wherever possible, so it might be possible to port node-red to it.

Mongoose is a web server. See https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose. It's obviously not https://github.com/Automattic/mongoose.

Here are the links, to save you from the digging: - https://www.cesanta.com/developer/smartjs#_http - https://www.cesanta.com/developer/smartjs#_websocket MQTT API is on it's way, it's already implemented by the underlying networking library (https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose)