Great question! It's built on node.js but it also has the flow editor that allows you to build the software by joining the pieces of the flow. In their words "Node-Red provides a browser based flow editor that makes it easy to wire together flows using the wide range of nodes in the pallette". Plus the hundreds of other nodes that folks all over the world have built and shared in that community!
You are viewing a single comment's thread from:
Ah that’s pretty interesting. I have always been able to install node on my pi the same way as I do on my other servers so I was wondering why you chose to install that.
In my opinion, Node-Red is a GUI for node.js. It allows you to easily generate complex programs with a simple to use and understand User Interface. I don't know node.js and when I look at the code I've generated from my flows, I really have to sloooowly go thru the lines to try to understand what it taking place.
If I ever log into the GUI on my pi(its logged into CLI because of power reasons and I don't want to have to reload all the programs running on it) I'll give it a try. Thanks for explaining it to me.