Node.js 8 the Right Way

Setting Up Node-RED

To begin, create a directory called nodered to house your Node-RED-based code. Then open a terminal to this directory and create an initial package.json.

$ npm init -y

Next, install the node-red package locally.

$ npm install --save --save-exact node-red@0.16.2

Then open your package.json in a text editor and add a start script to the scripts section like so:

  "scripts": {
    "start": "node-red -v -u ./config -f ./config/flows.json",
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
  },

Here we’re specifying a couple of command-line arguments to the node-red command. The -v flag turns on verbose mode. The -u flag is short for --userDir and specifies a path to a directory ...