Can I edit a node-RED flow outside of the node-RED Bluemix editor?
What is I want to update/create flows from the Bluemix DevOps Services project? The flow.jason file seems disconnected from the real node-RED flows
Accepted answer
When run in bluemix, the flows are stored in the attached Cloudant database. This is because the file system cannot be used for persistent storage - if the app gets restarted, any changes to files made by the app are lost.
This means it is not possible to use DevOps Services to modify the flow file - you have to either use the Node-RED editor, or attach to the cloudant dashboard and edit the JSON directly. If you do edit the JSON in the cloudant dashboard, you will need to manually restart your node-red app to pick up the change.