--- title: "Lighting My Porch With Vega #coding #programming #javascript #vega" url: https://daily.dev/posts/lighting-my-porch-with-vega-coding-programming-javascript-vega-r5kkejfy4 source_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55hdtzM8T98 type: video:youtube source: "Jack Herrington" published: 2026-07-02T18:25:08.210Z updated: 2026-07-02T18:25:30.399Z tags: ["javascript", "iot", "react-native"] reading_time: 1 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Lighting My Porch With Vega #coding #programming #javascript #vega **[Jack Herrington](https://daily.dev/sources/jherr)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A developer built a home astronomy display by combining 3D-printed planets, controllable LEDs (via WLED), and an Amazon Fire Stick app built with Amazon's Vega framework. Vega uses React Native for the UI, making it accessible to React developers. The project features a solar system map navigable with a TV remote D-pad, LED control via HTTP fetch calls to a WLED controller, and voice recognition using Arya labels so viewers can say a planet's name to highlight it on screen and in the lights. The developer highlights Vega's VS Code extension, local simulator, CLI scaffolding tool, and good compatibility with LLM coding agents. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#javascript](https://daily.dev/tags/javascript), [#iot](https://daily.dev/tags/iot), [#react-native](https://daily.dev/tags/react-native) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/lighting-my-porch-with-vega-coding-programming-javascript-vega-r5kkejfy4)