Intro to Node-RED: Part 2 Best Practices

Published at : 23 Dec 2025

In this Node-RED tutorial for beginners Opto 22's Terry Orchard goes over some best practices for creating an IIoT Node-RED flow. A few of the tips and tricks covered in this video workshop include:
- Importing and exporting flows
- Back up flows
- Copy, paste, move nodes
- Using Comment nodes
- Wiring nodes
- Snap to grid
- keyboard shortcuts
- Library
- Function nodes, subflow nodes, msg.payload, and catch nodes

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0:00 Introduction
1:42 Import into a new flow
2:03 Export an entire flow
2:41 Import/export all flows
3:07 Move nodes between flows
3:24 Add/ delete flows
3:45 Name and describe flows
4:44 Tips on wiring nodes
5:51 Keyboard shortcuts
6:12 Using libraries
6:56 Function nodes
8:43 Subflow nodes
10:08 Catch nodes
10:46 Msg.payload nodes

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