January 2018
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
7h 22m
English
In this final chapter, I want to take you somewhere very different—to give you a peek into the future of Node.js programming. You may be surprised at what you see!
Rather than composing JavaScript in a text editor, here you’ll learn how to use a visual editor called Node-RED.[108] Originally developed by IBM and now stewarded by the JS Foundation,[109] Node-RED bills itself as “a visual tool for wiring the Internet of Things.” But it can do way more than that.
I like to think of Node-RED as a visual IDE, specially tuned for creating asynchronous, event-driven Node.js programs. With Node-RED, you drag and drop nodes—units of functionality—and connect them via their input and output ports. A node ...
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