Node-RED Review
The OG of Flow-Based Programming Finally Gets Its Flowers Node-RED is automation for tinkerers — equal parts engineering playground and system integrator’s fever dream. It’s not shiny, it’s not hip, but it gets the job done with a swagger that says, “Yeah, I’ve been doing event-driven workflows since before your startup existed.” Before low-code was cool, before every SaaS tool started pretending to be “developer-friendly,” there was Node-RED — a scrappy, open-source flow editor built by IBM engineers who just wanted to wire the Internet of Things together without losing their minds in callback hell. It started as a side project, a visual tool for wiring together devices and APIs. Ten years later, it’s quietly become the backbone of half the world’s hobby projects, a stealth hero in industrial IoT, and the unexpected glue between edge devices, databases, and dashboards. What Node-RED Actually Does Node-RED is a flow-based programming tool that lets you connect inputs, outputs, and logi...