Node Red Crash Course: Unlimited Capability Building

A course to break the the limitation of node red usage and unleash the power.

What you'll learn

Matering Node Red for software development, test automation and process/worflow automation via this powerful tool.

Learning Flow Based Programming concepts, methods and practises to boost the effectiveness and efficiency.

Extending the skills and thinking model by integrating Node Red and hot topics like web service, RPA etc.

Build up the mindset of developing software with a mixture of differences paradigm of FBP, Vonn Neumann, Responsiveness and more.

Requirements

Must have: Basic Javascript/Nodejs knowledge, Web browser operation, Bash(Linux) or CMD/Powershell(Windows) operation

Nice to have: TCP/IP based network knowledge, PUB-SUB programming model, Web service concepts

Description

This course is for Node Red but with different insights than usual view angles. It's not just to teach people how to use Node Red in normal use cases but to use it as a general purpose software development platform underpinned by FBP(Flow Based Programming) paradigm. As being mentioned in the openning introduction video clip the course tends to give people "finishing capability" and not "a fish". To maximize the benefit of this course the learners better have the knowledge of Linux, Web Service, HTTP,  Database, Python and sense of integrating whatever useful technology together for a bigger view. This is particularly shown in the 3 chapters of building a full stack SPA(single page application).The content of the course is step by step, gradually from basic stuff to advanced topics. First we will have a quick glance on how node red builds work flow to implememnt the classical hello world program. Then starting from the most basic things like the installation for various platforms, to flow editor usage, and to node catergory and their functionalities, then to advanced topics like running python code in node red or build your own nodes, and finally to the procedure of building a full stack single page application by combining all pieces together.  Experience either in software development or test automation is a significant plus for learning well. Keeping mind open is a key to success as the whole course is not to teach each piece in super details but emphasize the thinking and methds to resolve issues in from of you.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Instructor introduction

Lecture 2 Purpose of this course

Section 2: Quick start

Lecture 3 Overview of Node-RED and its use cases

Lecture 4 Get your feet wet – “Hello world” on Node-RED

Lecture 5 Understanding the Node-RED user interface

Lecture 6 Summary

Section 3: Node-Red setup and learning environment constrction

Lecture 7 Set up Node Red on Linux

Lecture 8 Set up Node Red on Windows

Lecture 9 Set up Node Red on Raspberry Pi

Lecture 10 Set up Node Red via docker

Lecture 11 Summary

Section 4: Flow-based programming with Node-RED

Lecture 12 The concept of FBP(Flow Based Programming)

Lecture 13 Creating a work flow more complex than "hello world"

Lecture 14 Input and output of a node

Lecture 15 Debugging a flow

Lecture 16 Managing and deploying flows

Lecture 17 Summary

Section 5: Deep dive nodes in Node-RED

Lecture 18 Common nodes in categories

Lecture 19 Using function node

Lecture 20 Using network related nodes

Lecture 21 Using storage nodes for file I/O

Lecture 22 Nodes from community

Lecture 23 Summary

Section 6: Advanced Node-RED topics

Lecture 24 Multiple output of a node

Lecture 25 Create your own node

Lecture 26 Sub flow & flows inter link

Lecture 27 Running python code

Lecture 28 Node Red customization & security consideration

Lecture 29 Summary

Section 7: Real project going through: instant Linux core watcher - Functionality

Lecture 30 Goals analysis

Lecture 31 Back end components set up

Lecture 32 Node Red flow build up

Section 8: Real project going through: instant Linux core watcher - Web Service Exposure

Lecture 33 Endpoints design

Lecture 34 Service handlers implementation

Section 9: Real project going through: instant Linux core watcher - GUI

Lecture 35 Node Red dashboard as a SPA

Lecture 36 Showing latest core dump data

Lecture 37 Statistical data by charts

Lecture 38 List all historical data in table

Section 10: Conclusion

Lecture 39 Summary of the course

Anyone who does not have hard background on programming but need to develop software in a low/no code manner.,Architects who want to land their design and thoughts onto a fast living prototype.,Software developers/testers who are seeking new methods to boost the development effiency and low cost maintenance.,Experts who need tools to offload them on handling complex system integration scenarios.