Node.js 8 the Right Way

Chapter 10BONUS: Developing Flows with Node-RED

In this final chapter, I want to take you somewhere very different—to give you a peek into the future of Node.js programming. You may be surprised at what you see!

Rather than composing JavaScript in a text editor, here you’ll learn how to use a visual editor called Node-RED.^[108] Originally developed by IBM and now stewarded by the JS Foundation,^[109] Node-RED bills itself as “a visual tool for wiring the Internet of Things.” But it can do way more than that.

I like to think of Node-RED as a visual IDE, specially tuned for creating asynchronous, event-driven Node.js programs. With Node-RED, you drag and drop nodes—units of functionality—and connect them via their input and output ...