# Node-RED: low-code programming for event-driven applications, README overview

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- updated: 2026-11-07T13:43:01.667Z
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The README tags Node-RED as low-code programming for event-driven applications.

Source: https://github.com/node-red/node-red

What it supplies: The README tags Node-RED as low-code programming for event-driven applications.

Useful for: - Build event-driven applications with low-code programming.
- Browse the Node-RED Library for custom nodes and integrations, shared flows and node collections.

First action: - Install globally with sudo npm install -g --unsafe-perm node-red, run node-red, then open the editor on local port 1880.
- Follow the getting-started page for full instructions.
- To run the latest code from git, clone the repository, run npm ci, run npm run build, then npm start.
- Ask the Node-RED Forum or Node-RED Slack for help.

Prerequisites and limits: The README uses npm for installation and gives the editor on local port 1880. It names no Node.js version, operating system or release number.

- The README gives only brief quick-start steps and points to the documentation for the rest.
- It describes no node features and gives no performance or security information.
- The install command uses sudo with --unsafe-perm, which you may want to review for your system before running it.

The README says Node-RED is a project of the OpenJS Foundation, with copyright held by the OpenJS Foundation and other contributors, under the Apache 2.0 license. The licence file was not read here. Nodes and flows in the library are separate projects with their own terms.

Written from the README text only. Statements are as the README gives them; nothing was installed or run and no flow was built.
Based on README text only; the documentation site, the node library, the licence file and the code were not read. No install or run was made.

Source inspected: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/node-red/node-red/c694a9b04ccfdeff2923bf8419082595f4e27071/README.md ; 5289 bytes ; sha256 1cd81f510ce63f317c2c72b52971b98e4f749a6d11e0ce67453d139e380f32bc ; 7 exact pinned excerpts in the draft pin map

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