FlowFuse Node-RED Assistant

A Node-RED plugin to assist FlowFuse users.

This plugin can only be used within FlowFuse-managed Node-RED instances.

FlowFuse is the Industrial application platform for building and operating custom industrial solutions that digitalize processes and operations. It integrates seamlessly into both IT and OT environments, leveraging Node-RED to enable teams to connect, collect, transform, and visualize data from industrial systems. Companies use FlowFuse to manage, scale, and secure their Node-RED-based applications across industrial environments.

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About

This plugin is designed to assist users of the FlowFuse platform by providing tools to aid development of their Node-RED instances including:

• A function builder
• Function node Code Lens
• JSON generation in all typed inputs and JSON editors (like the inject node, change node, template node, etc)
• Flows Explainer
• HTML, VUE, and CSS generation in FlowFuse Dashboard ui-template nodes

Function Builder

JSON generator

Flows Explainer

FlowFuse Dashboard UI Template Assistant

FlowFuse Dashboard UI CSS Assistant

Installation

1npm install @flowfuse/nr-assistant

Development

Client-side portion of the plugin is in index.html. The server side code is in index.js

NOTES:

• Requires the settings.js file to contain the following:

1{
2    "flowforge": {
3        "assistant": {
4            "enabled": true,
5            "url": "https://", // URL of the AI service
6            "token": "", // API token for the AI service
7            "requestTimeout": 60000 // Timeout value for the AI service request
8        }
9    }
10}

These values are automatically set when running within the FlowFuse platform via the nr-launcher component.

The url and token are for an AI service hosted by FlowFuse; it is not publicly available for use outside of the FlowFuse platform.

Limitations

Function Builder

• Only a single function node can be generated at a time.

Function Node Editor Codelens

• The codelens feature is only supported for the on-message editor in the function node.

Versioning

While in development, the version number of this package will remain at 0.x.y. x will be incremented for breaking changes, y for new features and patches.

Once plugin and API are stable, the version number will be updated to 1.0.0 and full SemVer rules will be applied.

License

Apache-2.0