README.md

Node-RED Library

This is the source of the application behind http://flows.nodered.org.

It provides a searchable index of user-contributed flows as well as node packages published to npm.

Running a development copy

This repo comes with a docker-compose based development environment. To get started:

1. Install docker

2. Configure your flow-library settings.

   The repository includes the file default-settings.js. You should copy that to settings.js and update it with your various api keys. Do not check this file back into git - it has already been added to .gitignore to prevent this.

3. Run:

    npm run docker
   

   This first time you run this will take a while as it downloads various pieces. When it completes, you will be able to access http://localhost:7000 to see the flow library.

The docker image uses nodemon to watch for changes to the source code and automatically restart the app when needed - without having to restart docker.

Add nodes

To test you will want to add a few nodes to the database. To do so, use the update-one task. For example.

node tasks/update-one.js node-red-dashboard

or in the docker container running the application

docker exec -it flowlibrary_node_1 node tasks/update-one.js node-red-dashboard