Get started with Node-RED

Learn the basics of Node-RED and get up and running with these blogs, tutorials, and code patterns.

What is Node-RED?

Node-RED is a low-code programming environment for event-driven applications. It uses flow-based programming to let you draw a visual representation of how messages should flow through the application.

Get up and running

Put the Node-RED concepts into practice by building your first Node-RED applications.

Create your first Node-RED application

Create a Node-RED starter application in IBM Cloud, including a Cloudant database to store the application flow configuration.

Tutorial

Create a Node-RED starter application

May 22, 2020

Create both a secure web service and a dashboard using Node-RED

Build an application that analyzes earthquake-related data along with weather data to understand when and where earthquakes are happening around the world.

Tutorial

Build a simple earthquake monitoring system

March 17, 2020

Next steps

Put your Node-RED knowledge to work with these code patterns and tutorials.

Series

Learning Path: Develop production-ready, containerized Node-RED apps

July 7, 2020
Code Pattern

Develop a machine learning IoT app with Node-RED and TensorFlow.js

January 10, 2020
Code Pattern

Optimize your visual recognition classification

April 17, 2018

Create your own nodes from APIs and services

Learn how to create a customized node for a RESTful deep learning microservice, providing access to that service's API in your Node-RED flows.

Read the tutorial