After all, right now the perceived norm is to send all your 100Mb/day of data through a kafkaesk array of message queues, stream processors and map-reduce jobs.

Simple from a development point of view.

I just had a cow-orker ask me if I know any Angular, because he wants to display a single value in browser from a sensor attached to Raspberry Pi.

So yes, jQuery plugin is pretty damn simple for 2017.