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In this guide you will learn how to import a node Node-RED flow.

What is Node RED?

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Node-RED is a visual tool for wiring the Internet of Things developed by IBM Emerging Technology and the open source community. Using Node-RED, developers wire up input, output and processing nodes to create flows to process data, control things, or send alerts. It works by allowing you to wire up web services or custom “nodes” to each other, or to things, to do things like:

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I would like to run an AC sweep for this circuit below. Unfortunately the following errors occurred: LL2 N04540 0.10976mH RR3 N04968 N029 TC=0,0 CC6 N0.

  • Send an email on a rainy weather forecast.
  • Push sensor data to services like Twitter.
  • Perform complex analysis on data with ease.</li?If you’re new to Node RED you might find our Introduction to Node RED tutorial very helpful.

    What is FRED

    Front End for Node-RED (FRED) manages instances of Node-RED for multiple users in the cloud. We manage and optimize your instance of Node RED so you worry about accomplishing your project, not setting up and maintaining your Node-RED instance.

    Create a FRED Account

    To begin our tutorial create your own Node-RED instance in the cloud. Register for a free account at http://fred.sensetecnic.com.

    After registering make sure to activate your account via your email. You will not be able to login until you validate your account.

    Importing a flow using the Clipboard.

    Importing a flow in FRED (Node-RED) is really simple. When you log in you can access the import from clipboard function under the

    Menu > Import > Clipboard

    menu.

    For this guide we will be copying the this simple flow:

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    [{“id”:”f1019291.0efe7″,”type”:”debug”,”name”:””,”active”:true,”console”:”false”,”complete”:”false”,”x”:350,”y”:260,”z”:”65e4be7c.9a1b4″,”wires”:[]},{“id”:”e45ccc34.1ba33″,”type”:”inject”,”name”:””,”topic”:””,”payload”:””,”payloadType”:”date”,”repeat”:””,”crontab”:””,”once”:false,”x”:192,”y”:172,”z”:”65e4be7c.9a1b4″,”wires”:[[“f1019291.0efe7”]]}]
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    Select and copy to your clipboard. Paste it into the modal window and click “Ok”.

    You can then position your flow by clicking anywhere on the canvas.

    That’s it, you’re done.

Getting started with Node.js modules: require, exports, imports, and beyond.

Modules are a crucial concept to understand Node.js projects. In this post, we cover Node modules: require, exports and, the future import.

Node modules allow you to write reusable code. You can nest them one inside another. Using the Node Package Manager (NPM), you can publish your modules and make them available to the community. Also, NPM enables you to reuse modules created by other developers.

We are using Node 12.x for the examples and ES6+ syntax. However, the concepts are valid for any version.

In this section, we are going to cover how to create Node modules and each one of its components:

  • Require
  • Exports
  • Module (module.exports vs. export)
  • Import
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Require

require are used to consume modules. It allows you to include modules in your programs. You can add built-in core Node.js modules, community-based modules (node_modules), and local modules.

Let’s say we want to read a file from the filesystem. Node has a core module called ‘fs’:

As you can see, we imported the “fs” module into our code. It allows us to use any function attached to it, like “readFile” and many others.

The require function will look for files in the following order:

  1. Built-in core Node.js modules (like fs)
  2. NPM Modules. It will look in the node_modules folder.
  3. Local Modules. If the module name has a ./, / or ../, it will look for the directory/file in the given path. It matches the file extensions: *.js, *.json, *.mjs, *.cjs, *.wasm and *.node.

Let’s now explain each in little more details with

Built-in Modules

When you install node, it comes with many built-in modules. Node comes with batteries included ;)

Some of the most used core modules are:

  • fs: Allows you to manipulate (create/read/write) files and directories.
  • path: utilities to work with files and directories paths.
  • http: create HTTP servers and clients for web development.
  • url: utilities for parsing URLs and extracting elements from it.
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These you don’t have to install it, you can import them and use them in your programs.

NPM Modules

NPM modules are 3rd-party modules that you can use after you install them. To name a few:

  • lodash: a collection of utility functions for manipulating arrays, objects, and strings.
  • request: HTTP client simpler to use than the built-in http module.
  • express: HTTP server for building websites and API. Again, simpler to use than the built-in http module.

These you have to install them first, like this:

and then you can reference them like built-in modules, but this time they are going to be served from the node_modules folder that contains all the 3rd-party libraries.

Creating your own Nodejs modules

If you can’t find a built-in or 3rd-party library that does what you want, you will have to develop it yourself.In the following sections, you are going to learn how to do that using exports.

Exports

The exports keyword gives you the chance to “export” your objects and methods. Let’s do an example:

In the code below, we are exporting the area and circumference functions. We defined the PI constant, but this is only accessible within the module. Only the elements associated with exports are available outside the module.

So, we can consume it using require in another file like follows:

Noticed that this time we prefix the module name with ./. That indicates that the module is a local file.

Module Wrapper

You can think of each Node.js module as a self-contained function like the following one:

We have already covered exports and require. Notice the relationship between module.exports and exports. They point to the same reference. But, if you assign something directly to exports you will break its link to module.exports — more on that in the next section.

For our convenience __filename and __dirname are defined. They provide the full path to the current file and directory. The latter excludes the filename and prints out the directory path.

For instance, for our ./circle.js module, it would be something like this:

  • __filename: /User/adrian/code/circle.js

  • __dirname: /User/adrian/code

Ok, we have covered exports, require, __filename, and __dirname. The only one we haven’t covered is module. Let’s go for it!

Module.exports vs. Exports

The module is not global; it is local for each module. It contains metadata about a module like id, exports, parent, children, and so on.

exports is an alias of module.exports. Consequently, whatever you assign to exports is also available on module.exports. However, if you assign something directly to exports, then you lose the shortcut to module.exports. E.g.

Try the following case with exports and then with module.exports.

To sum up, when to use module.exports vs exports:

Use exports to:

  • Export named function. e.g. exports.area, exports.circumference.

Use module.exports to:

  1. If you want to export an object, class, function at the root level (e.g. module.exports = Cat)

  2. If you prefer to return a single object that exposes multiple assignments. e.g.module.exports = {area, circumference};

Imports

Starting with version 8.5.0+, Node.js supports ES modules natively with a feature flag and new file extension *.mjs.

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For instance, our previous circle.js can be rewritten as circle.mjs as follows:

Then, we can use import:

And, finally you can run it using the experimental module feature flag:

If you don’t like experimental modules, another alternative is to use a transpiler. That converts modern JavaScript to older versions for you. Good options areTypeScript,Babel, andRollup.

Troubleshooting import and require issues

Experimental Flag

If you don’t use the experimental flag node --experimental-modules and you try to use import you will get an error like this:

File extension .mjs vs .js (or .cjs)

If you have a *.mjs file you cannot use require or it will throw an error (ReferenceError: require is not defined)..mjs is for import ECMAScript Modules and .js is for regular require modules.

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However, with *.mjs you can load both kinds of modules!

Notice that cat.js is using commonJS modules.

Summary

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We learned about how to create Node.js modules and used it in our code. Modules allow us to reuse code easily. They provide functionality that is isolated from other modules. The require function is used to load modules. The exports and module.exports allow us to define what parts of our code we want to expose. We also explored the difference between module.exports and exports. Finally, we took a quick pick about what’s coming up for modules using imports.