You're reading from Practical Node-RED Programming Learn powerful visual programming techniques and best practices for the web and IoT

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800201590

Length 326 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

Node-Red

Concepts

Server Side Web Development

Author (1):

Taiji Hagino

View More author details

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Node-RED Basics

2. Chapter 1: Introducing Node-RED and Flow-Based Programming FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Setting Up the Development Environment

4. Chapter 3: Understanding Node-RED Characteristics by Creating Basic Flows

5. Chapter 4: Learning the Major Nodes

6. Section 2: Mastering Node-RED

7. Chapter 5: Implementing Node-RED Locally

8. Chapter 6: Implementing Node-RED in the Cloud

9. Chapter 7: Calling a Web API from Node-RED

10. Chapter 8: Using the Project Feature with Git

11. Section 3: Practical Matters

12. Chapter 9: Creating a ToDo Application with Node-RED

13. Chapter 10: Handling Sensor Data on the Raspberry Pi

14. Chapter 11: Visualize Data by Creating a Server-Side Application in the IBM Cloud

15. Chapter 12: Developing a Chatbot Application Using Slack and IBM Watson

16. Chapter 13: Creating and Publishing Your Own Node on the Node-RED Library

17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Appendix: Node-RED User Community

Chapter 2: Setting Up the Development Environment

In this chapter, you will install the tools that you'll need to use Node-RED. This extends not only to Node-RED itself, but to its runtime, Node.js, and how to update both Node-RED and Node.js.

Node-RED released its 1.0 milestone version in September 2019. This reflects the maturity of the project, as it is already being widely used in production environments. It continues to be developed and keeps up to date by making changes to the underlying Node.js runtime. You can check the latest status of Node-RED's installation at https://nodered.org/docs/getting-started/.

There are a number of installation guides on the Node-RED official website, such as local, Raspberry Pi, Docker, and major cloud platforms.

In this chapter, you will learn how to install Node-RED on your local computer, whether you are running it on Windows, Mac, or on a Raspberry Pi. We will cover the following topics: