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I'd used it dozens of times with clients to showcase the value of Node-RED and how easy it is to spin up integrations between hardware devices, APIs and online services.",[10,38,39,40,44],{},"If you're now looking for somewhere to rely on in order to easily spin up new instance of Node-RED, then FlowFuse is the obvious answer. 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