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

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800201590

Length 326 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

Node-Red

Concepts

Server Side Web Development

Author (1):

Taiji Hagino

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

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

Installing npm and Node.js for Mac

If you want to use Node-RED on macOS, you must install npm and Node.js via the following website:

https://nodejs.org/en/#home-downloadhead

You can get the Mac Installer for Node.js directly there.

Access the original Node.js website and download the installer. You can choose either the recommended or latest features version, but for this book, you should use the recommended version:

Figure 2.6 – Choosing a recommended version installer

Click the .pkg file you downloaded to start installing Node.js. It includes the current version of npm. Node-RED is running on the Node.js runtime, so it is needed. Simply click according to the installation wizard, though there are some points in the installation to pay attention to.

You need to accept the End-User License Agreement:

Figure 2.7 – End-User License Agreement window

You can change the installation location. In this book, the default...