README.md

node-red-azure-webapp

A webapp wrapper for running node-red in an Azure Web App. To use it just:

1. Deploy to Azure with this button:

Or...

1. Create an Azure Web App

2. Open the settings and activate Web sockets

   

   Figure 1 Activate Web sockets

3. Configure the deployment options as an External repository pointing to https://github.com/jmservera/node-red-azure-webapp.git

   

   Figure 2 External Repository

This project currently uses a workaround to avoid a small problem caused with child_process.execFile: it uses a fake npm.cmd that points to the real one.

Usage

Wait until everything is deployed before opening the website, during the deployment a script is executed to download this repo and install all the needed modules. If you see this screen just wait about 30 seconds to let the Node-RED app start:

Figure 3 Not Started Site

You can see the live log in the Azure Portal, in the Log stream tab:

Figure 4 Application logs stream

It comes with some cool nodes preinstalled:

• Dashboard (create an awesome ui and see it in https://yoursite/ui )
• Azure IoT Hub
• Cognitive Services
• Azure Storage (Blobs & Tables)
• DocumentDB
• Azure SQL
• Swagger node

Securing your deployment

To secure this deployment and add an admin password edit the settings.js file.

Version History

• v0.0.1
  • First test with basic nodes
• v0.0.2
  • Deploy to Azure Button
  • Add cognitive services
• v0.0.3
  • Update Node-Red version to 0.18.4
• v1.0.0
  • Update Nodejs to 8.9.4
  • Make Nodejs version configurable
  • Add Swagger Node
• v2.0.0-beta
  • Update Nodejs to 12
  • Update Node-red to 1.0.6
  • Update azureiothubnode to 0.5.2
  • Update cognitive-services 0.5.5
  • Update dashboard 2.21.0
  • Update node-swagger 0.1.9