IoT - node-red tips

Playing with node-red I did hit a couple of problems.
This page collects some tips/suggestions/FAQ to easy deal with this great program.

Dashboard

When installing node-red, a default dashboard is installed.
The dashboard contains different modules, among them some to handle the UI (User Interface), i.e. the portion of node-red that you can "see" in your flow.
There are many others dashboard out there, specifically one that has interesting modules.

It is important to remember that very probably adding a new dashboard will make node-red not working anymore !
So BEFORE to install a new dashboard be sure to have a procedure to install it correctly, things that normally can imply to remove the default one.

For example on my node-red server I installed the node-red-dashboard.
But I had already installed the node-red-contrib-ui that of course caused node-red to don't work properly when showing the UI.

To correctly install the dashboard :

• go on the server via a terminal
• stop node-red
• node-red stop
• go on the node-red directory
• cd ~/.node-red
• remove the old/default UI (in my case node-red-contrib-ui
• npm unisntall node-red-contrib-ui
• sudo npm install node-red-contrib-ui
• install the new dashboard
• npm install node-red-dashboard
• sudo nopm install node-red-dashboard
• reboot
• go back login via a terminal
• start node-red
• node-red start

Everythign should work now