Web to Arduino serial communication

Question

I am looking to transfer commands/data from a web-page to an Arduino in order to interact with it in the same way you would on a local computer. I have done this with Processing and am just beginning to read into processing.js for a possible solution. As it stands it looks like I may have to utilize a 'middle-man' for server-side (like node.js or Ajax) to grab the information from both client-side and the Arduino, to then be processed.

I was hoping to get clarification on this; the different options available to achieve this with some possible links, small examples or whatever you feel would best aid me. I do not necessarily need to utilize processing.js, I am comfortable with most client-side web stuff.

Answer 1

I would suggest you to use Python with pySerial library. Very easy to use, and definitely faster than Processing/Arduino app.