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

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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

Why you should use Node-RED for web applications

So far, this book has explained that Node-RED is an easy-to-use tool for the Internet of Things (IoT). There are many cases where Node-RED is used as a solution in the IoT field.

However, recently, Node-RED has been recognized as a tool for creating web applications as well as IoT.

I think one of the reasons is that the ideas of no-code and low-code have become widespread in the world. Nowadays, the number of people who know flow-based programming tools and visual programming tools is increasing, and they are being used in various fields.

It would be natural for Node-RED, which is made with Node.js, to be used for web applications.

The project function that we learned in the previous chapter, in collaboration with Git/GitHub, may also be a part of the flow of web application development culture.

In this chapter, we will create a ToDo application that is very suitable as a piece of development for tutorials.

The overall...