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Re: Node-RED: Low-code programming for event-driven applications

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Post by finder83 »

Graffur wrote: post #38

I'd like to hear from some people that don't like Node-RED.

I didn't dislike node red, but it didn't really fit my use case well. I wanted to use it as a REST service to write APIs for clients to use to generate reports from our various databases. Basically a low-code data pipeline from cassandra, mongo, sql, etc. It worked...but things like switching git branches while keeping things running, updating the service, aggregating results, etc, were difficult. More difficult than just writing the code.

I wrote one then never used it again opting for node instances inside of our Kubernetes cluster instead.

Re: Node-RED: Low-code programming for event-driven applications

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Post by darkteflon »

rcarmo wrote: post #66
darkteflon wrote: post #41

I run a Homebridge / Homekit ecosystem at home but have always been curious about leveraging Node-RED to handle more complex automations. Does anyone have any recommendations and/or recommended reading on putting these two together?

I have a setup with homebridge, zigbee2mqtt, z2m (for better glue between both) and Node-RED, and a few write-ups here: https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2019/01/13/1900 Essentially you can use Node-RED to either act as another HomeKit bridge or to handle MQTT events from homebridge itself (I chose the latter). You can easily "fake" and inject new accessories into homebridge via the homebridge-mqtt plugin (which allows…

Excellent, thank you very much for taking the time - much appreciated.

Re: Node-RED: Low-code programming for event-driven applications

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Post by hwillis »

samlents wrote: post #57
hwillis wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It does (everything is saved as json), but it's a bit of a hassle. Scripts are saved to a single line, so you really need a plugin that breaks them up. It's really pretty silly that isn't the default. The other huge PITA is that touching a node in the UI causes the json to update even if you didn't do anything, and changes will often cause nodes in the json to reorder. That makes git commits very cluttered. Merging i…

I've run into these issues as well but haven't come across those packages. What plugins are you all using?

set flowFilePretty to true (splits up lines in function nodes) and use node-red-contrib-flow-manager to split flows up.

[1] https://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red-contrib-flow-manager

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