Is it possible to control a stepper-motor with javascript?

Question

So I have seen some examples, how you can control servo-motors with javascript, but we use 2 stepper-motors for our project and these use an extra library in python. So is there a way to control them with javascript or to control a python script with javascript?

More information:

I want a mobile website or hybrid app to control these 2 stepper motors, just simple sliders to give them some speed and stop them. So the Web-Interface should communicate with WebSocket to my raspi. The WebSocket should be Socket.io with NodeJS. We use the Adafruit stepper-motor control-board, which has it's own library to control them.

• joan: JavaScript is a general purpose language so will be able to talk to a library to control gpios. I suspect you want to run the JavaScript in a web browser which brings unique problems. Could you explain what you are trying to do?
• TobiasW: I added some more information for you :)

Answer 1

From your first paragraph, yes, it's possible to call python from NodeJS, check out ChildProcess. Using that facility you can then communicate directly with the Python program that actually controls the motors.

Answer 2

Try nodejs on your RPi, and then use subprocess module of python to controlled javascript routines , I would also like you to check johnny-five lib of nodejs.

Answer 3

Take a look at jython It is a python in javascript.

• Jacobm001: @Thunder: The original poster is incorrect. Jython is a python implementation written in Java. Java and javascript are not related.
• TobiasW: Oh, ok thanks I had no time yet to check that out, but thanks that saves me some time :)
• Erik: Jython is short for Java-Python, not Javascript related at all