You can have as many different versions of Node-RED installed as you like making it easy to compare behaviours.The advantages of this approach I believe are: This works on any platform that Node-RED will run on. Have different versions of Node-RED running in parallel. Having a script to do this means that you can install Node-RED anywhere you like. You will find examples of these in the templates folder of this repository. Create startup and update scripts both for the master folder and the userDir folder using the script facility of npm.Create a sub-folder as your userDir - the place all of the nodes and your flows and other information is put.npm install -unsafe-perm -production node-red node-red-admin Use the npm package manager to install node-red (and node-red-admin if you like) into that folder.Create a folder in some convenient location.And so the idea for this code came about. Normally since you don't, of course, get any hand-holding to set it up. There seems to me to be an easy solution to the global installation issue. Service, it also makes some of the files under the surface difficult to find on the odd occasions you need to.

Not only can this open up security issues by having complex, inexperienced user generated code running under a global In particular, Node-RED itself (and the companion node-red-admin module) are normally installed globally. Is a better way to install and maintain your Node-RED systems. But for production use and for security, I think that there Don't get me wrong, it is great for beginnersĪnd for people inexperienced with the command line. However, I've never personally quite liked the default installation. I've used it now for a few years to create a custom home automation system and was impressed enough to start trying Of other great libraries such as D3, ExpressJS and JQuery. It is entirely JavaScript based thanks to NodeJS and a number It was later gifted to the JavaScript Foundation. Node-RED is a superb, flow-based development and prototyping tool written by IBM to showcase their IoT experience. These instructions should work on any platform supported by Node.JS. They are detailed in the README.md file installed in the data subfolder.

Run npm run to see the run commands available for your convenience. You may wish to adjust the settings.js file and install any required Nodes at this point. Once the install has completed (it may take some time), you can navigate to the data sub-folder and work with Node-RED as normal (e.g.

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