How to Develop Custom Node-RED Connectors Without Coding - Kazuhito Yokoi, Hitachi, Ltd.
Channel: The Linux Foundation
Date: 2023-05-25

How to Develop Custom Node-RED Connectors Without Coding - Kazuhito Yokoi, Hitachi, Ltd.

To promote the use of cloud services or devices from Node-RED, companies can easily publish their original connectors to the Node-RED flow library. But creating custom connectors is a time-consuming task because it requires coding with Node-RED-specific development rules. To solve this situation, we developed the Node generator tool as one of the Node-RED projects under the OpenJS Foundation. This tool can convert to custom connectors from various sources like OpenAPI documents. Recently, this tool has supported generating custom connectors from subflow as a new source. Using the subflow functionality, all Node-RED users are able to create their original connectors from the existing Node-RED flow without coding. In this session, I will show how to use the tool and integrate it with GitHub Actions to release connectors to the public semi-automatically.