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Node-RED
A flow-based visual programming tool for wiring together hardware, APIs, and online services. Standout trait is its huge community node ecosystem for IoT and automation.
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⚙ Full Stack
Single Node.js process running the Node-RED runtime with an Express-based editor UI; flows and credentials persist as JSON files on disk (or optionally a context store plugin like Redis).
📈 Scaling Analysis
A single Node-RED instance is single-process and does not horizontally scale — running multiple instances requires manual flow-file sharding or an external context store. Fine for IoT gateways and small automation workloads, not for high-throughput event processing.
🚀 Running on Nexlayer
Runs as a single pod with a persistent volume mounted for /data (flows.json, credentials); no external DB required by default. If integrating with other pods (e.g. an MQTT broker), reference them via <podName>.pod:<port>.