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Building Node-RED Nodes for fun or profit

This workshop takes you through how to create Nodes for Node-RED - the low-code programming tool for event driven applications.

Shortlink for this workshop: https://bit.ly/nr-node-workshop

Prerequisites

To complete this workshop, you will need:

• node.js 14.x or later

As part of the workshop you will be asked to install:

• Node-RED 3.x

Slides

The slides for this workshop are available here: https://speakerdeck.com/knolleary/building-node-red-nodes-for-fun-or-profit

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Workshop Parts

The workshop is split into the following parts:

• Part 1: Getting Started with Node-RED

  Install Node-RED locally and get your local development environment setup

• Part 2: Creating your first node

  Create a very simple node and get it running inside Node-RED

• Part 3: Adding properties to the node

  Make your node customisable to change its behaviour

• Part 4: Writing unit tests for your node

  Use Node-RED Node Test Helper to create unit tests for your node

• Part 5: Wrapping an existing npm module

  Add more functionality to the node using an existing npm module

• Part 6: Next steps

  Some suggestions on where to take your node next

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