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Practical Node-RED Programming

You're reading from   Practical Node-RED Programming Learn powerful visual programming techniques and best practices for the web and IoT

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800201590
Length 326 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Taiji Hagino Taiji Hagino
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Node-RED Basics
2. Chapter 1: Introducing Node-RED and Flow-Based Programming FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Setting Up the Development Environment 4. Chapter 3: Understanding Node-RED Characteristics by Creating Basic Flows 5. Chapter 4: Learning the Major Nodes 6. Section 2: Mastering Node-RED
7. Chapter 5: Implementing Node-RED Locally 8. Chapter 6: Implementing Node-RED in the Cloud 9. Chapter 7: Calling a Web API from Node-RED 10. Chapter 8: Using the Project Feature with Git 11. Section 3: Practical Matters
12. Chapter 9: Creating a ToDo Application with Node-RED 13. Chapter 10: Handling Sensor Data on the Raspberry Pi 14. Chapter 11: Visualize Data by Creating a Server-Side Application in the IBM Cloud 15. Chapter 12: Developing a Chatbot Application Using Slack and IBM Watson 16. Chapter 13: Creating and Publishing Your Own Node on the Node-RED Library 17. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix: Node-RED User Community

Enabling the project feature

For example, in situations where you want to manage your own flow while sharing it with others, or you want to update the flow created by others, it is difficult to develop when a team uses only the Node-RED flow editor.

The project function of Node-RED is a method/function for managing the files that are relevant with each flow you make. It covers all the files needed to create applications with Node-RED shareable.

These are supported by the Git repository. That is, all files are versioned. This allows developers to collaborate with other users.

On Node-RED version 1.x, the project feature is disabled by default, so it must be enabled in the config file named settings.js.

Important note

When creating a project in the local environment of Node-RED, the flow created so far may be overwritten with a blank sheet. You can download the JSON files of the flow configurations for all the flows created in this document via the internet, but if the...

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