Portable Node-RED

Run Node-RED with local settings.
Node-RED with default options stores settings file to user directory like %USERPROFILE%\.node-red.
This configured repository has options to store settings in local directory.

Prepare

git clone [email protected]:ryoichi-obara/node-red-run-local.git
cd node-red-run-local
npm i

Run

npm start

Portable settings

package.json in this repo uses --userDir and --flowFile options to run Node-RED. The options specify location to store in your local directory.

Debug in VS Code

For debugging purpose, this repository has ./vscode/launch.json.
You can debug your code / your Node-RED execution easily in VS Code.

launch.json has two options to debug. Both are useful for your debugging. One is to run Node-RED in VS Code debugging feature.
The other one is to pick up process that have already running.

Debug to run Node-RED

• Click debug pane on side menu.
• Select a configuration "Run Node-RED".
• Start debugging

Debug to pick process

• Run Node-RED e.g. npm start
• Click debug pane on side menu.
• Select a configuration "Pick process".
• Start debugging