FlowFuse Documentation

Welcome to the documentation for FlowFuse, an open-source, industrial data platform that enables engineers to build, manage, scale, and secure their Node-RED solutions.

It covers everything from setup, to usage, and development. All contributions are welcome.

Getting Started

Run FlowFuse yourself on your own infrastructure.

Hosted solution, nothing to install anything, jump straight in.

Using FlowFuse

Getting Started

Here are some quick reference links to our most popular topics. You can also view the full documentation available for FlowFuse in our Getting Started guide.

Understand the options available for your Node-RED Instances
Version Control for your Node-RED Instances.
Centralized management of re-usable flows and functions.
Deploy flows between Test, Staging & Production Environments.
Deploy flows remotely with FlowFuse "Devices". 
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     <span>Manage large numbers of devices together.</span>
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Advanced Features

Once you're more comfortable with FlowFuse, you may want to explore some of our more advanced features that will help elevate your Node-RED experience even further.

Host your Instances at a custom subdomain 
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     <span>Host your Instances at a custom subdomain</span>
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Automatically distribute workload across multiple copies of your Node-RED Instance.

FlowFuse Extras

A complete set of FlowFuse-maintained nodes for data sharing between instances, MQTT messaging, AI/ONNX models, MCP agent integrations, and enterprise data features.

Create interactive, responsive and secure Dashboards in Node-RED.

Manage thousands of Node-RED Instances remotely with the FlowFuse Device Agent.

AI in the Node-RED Editor to help build your flows.

Support

Contributing to FlowFuse

  • Useful Information - Learn the foundational concepts of how FlowFuse is built & structured.
  • Development Setup - Configure your local development environment to contribute to FlowFuse.
  • Testing - Understand our testing philosophy at FlowFuse.