Overview

Simple node-red & express server

Node-red-express is a lightweight wrapper for node-red using express server.

• Moves the flows.json file to the project directory
• Merges node-red settings file with index.js
• Includes rudimentary example flow to demonstrate how to use npm packages and environment variables within node-red.

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Installation

Clone this repository to your local system and change into this directory

git clone https://github.com/bimlauncher/node-red-express

Install node modules

npm install

Start Node-RED

npm start

Once Node-RED is running you can access the editor from your browser

http://localhost:8000/

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Docker

Use the following command for the simplest way to get started with this project. (Note - The prebuilt docker image from dockerhub exposes node-red on port 8000)

$ docker run -p 8000:8000 bimlauncher/node-red-express

Or Build and tag your own image. From within the node-red directory, do:

$ docker build -t bimlauncher/node-red-express .

Then, open a browser to node-red:

$ localhost:8000

You can start and stop containers without losing the flows files. First, do docker ps to get list of running containers. Then do docker stop <CONTAINER ID> to stop the container. Alternatively, do docker start <CONTAINER ID> to start it up again.

Licence

MIT

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Similar Node-red reference start projects

• https://github.com/dceejay/node-red-project-starter
• https://github.com/natcl/node-red-project-template