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.
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
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.
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