Node.js 8 the Right Way

Setting Up Node-RED

To begin, create a directory called nodered to house your Node-RED-based code. Then open a terminal to this directory and create an initial package.json.

​$ ​​npm​​ ​​init​​ ​​-y​

Next, install the node-red package locally.

​$ ​​npm​​ ​​install​​ ​​--save​​ ​​--save-exact​​ ​​node-red@0.16.2​

Then open your package.json in a text editor and add a start script to the scripts section like so:

  ​"scripts"​: {
    ​"start"​: ​"node-red -v -u ./config -f ./config/flows.json"​,
    ​"test"​: ​"echo ​​\"​​Error: no test specified​​\"​​ && exit 1"​
  },

Here we’re specifying a couple of command-line arguments to the ...