Potentiality of using Raspberry Pi as Application Dev Environment

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Potentiality of using Raspberry Pi Wei Chen 5th Try English LT! for engineers, 2020/07/04 as Application Dev Environment

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Who am I? Name: Birthplace: Languages I speak Company I work for @willsmile 1 My Favorite Linux Distributions native: Mandarin Chinese second: English third: Japanese Classi Corp. (since 2019) Arch Linux, Debian Wei Chen Jilin, China

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My Personal Development Environment 2 1. Thinkpad X280 2. Macbook Pro 13-inch 3. iPad Pro 11-inch (logicool SLIM FOLIO PRO) with Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 4GB Both network and power can be provided by only one USB-C cable

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How to Connect Raspberry Pi by USB-C Cable 3 https://qiita.com/willsmile/items/dc3f2432bac6d870bd46 Manual is here

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Is Raspberry Pi a nice choice for web application development? Not yet. Not yet.

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Uncertainty of Raspberry Pi 5 1. Lack of docker official images 2. Lack of “binary” packages (ones have been already built) 3. Lack of support anyway Due to its CPU architecture (ARM)

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Example: Lack of docker official images 6 https://hub.docker.com/search?q=&type=image&image_filter=official&category=database

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Example: Lack of “binary” packages (1) 7 sass/node-sass https://github.com/sass/node-sass/releases/tag/v4.14.1 No package for ARM on Linux

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Example: Lack of “binary” packages (2) 8 Part of Dockerfile for My Private Project (Rails 6) The package manager can help you to build the package locally, but the some dependencies for building is required. Dependency for building node-sass

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Example: Lack of support anyway (1) 9 codahale/bcrypt-ruby Issue report Solution (temporarily) Avoid to use the latest version of package! https://github.com/codahale/bcrypt-ruby/issues/201

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Example: Lack of support anyway (2) 10 Shopify/bootsnap https://github.com/Shopify/bootsnap/issues/67 Issue report Solution (temporarily) Just turn it off!

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What is Potential of Raspberry Pi?

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Potentiality of Raspberry Pi 12 1. Troubleshooting will make you stronger. 2. Community is growing rapidly. 3. Mac transition to Apple silicon Minority idea of today might be a common sense of tomorrow.

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Thank you very much for your attention!