[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":110},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-\u002Fblog\u002F2023\u002F04\u002Fnodered-community-health":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"description":12,"extension":99,"meta":100,"navigation":105,"path":106,"seo":107,"stem":108,"__hash__":109},"blog\u002Fblog\u002F2023\u002F04\u002Fnodered-community-health.md","Node-RED Community Health",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":95},"minimark",[9,13,19,30,35,44,49,58,63,78,83,92],[10,11,12],"p",{},"It is often a challenge to measure the health of an open source project, like Node-RED. Individuals can download and use Node-RED without any indication or feedback to their ongoing satisfaction or usage. However, it is still interesting to look at a variety of metrics to understand the size of the Node-RED community.",[10,14,15],{},[16,17,18],"strong",{},"GitHub Stars",[10,20,21,22,29],{},"A popular method for demonstrating popularity of an open source project are GitHub stars. Node-RED has over 16K stars and when ",[23,24,28],"a",{"href":25,"rel":26},"https:\u002F\u002Fsynodus.com\u002Fblog\u002Flow-code\u002Fopen-source-low-code-platforms\u002F",[27],"nofollow","compared to other low-code platforms"," on GitHub has a strong showing. FWIW, GitHub stars are open to gaming so it is not a great long-term indicator of community health and engagement.",[10,31,32],{},[16,33,34],{},"Node-RED Library",[10,36,37,38,43],{},"At the core of the Node-RED community is the library of nodes and flows that have been developed by community members. The current library has over ",[23,39,42],{"href":40,"rel":41},"https:\u002F\u002Fflows.nodered.org\u002Fsearch?type=node&sort=downloads",[27],"4300 nodes available",", some of the more popular nodes are downloaded more than 10K times per week. The large library of community nodes supports a wide range of protocols, data sources, data stores, and much more. This makes Node-RED more relevant and useful to many more potential users.",[10,45,46],{},[16,47,48],{},"Node-RED Website Traffic",[10,50,51,52,57],{},"In the last year, Node-RED has had over 1.9 million unique visitors to the ",[23,53,56],{"href":54,"rel":55},"https:\u002F\u002Fnodered.org\u002F",[27],"nodered.org"," website, over 160K on a monthly basis. The most popular pages, after the home page, are the getting started pages. This demonstrates a strong interest in learning more about how to use Node-RED.",[10,59,60],{},[16,61,62],{},"NPM Downloads & Docker Pull Requests",[10,64,65,66,71,72,77],{},"Node-RED is installed by lots of people using Docker and NPM. The project averages over 500K\u002Fmonth pull requests from ",[23,67,70],{"href":68,"rel":69},"https:\u002F\u002Fhub.docker.com\u002Fr\u002Fnodered\u002Fnode-red",[27],"Docker Hub"," and 100K\u002Fmonth pull requests on ",[23,73,76],{"href":74,"rel":75},"https:\u002F\u002Fnpm-stat.com\u002Fcharts.html?package=node-red&from=2017-03-22&to=2023-03-22",[27],"NPM",".",[10,79,80],{},[16,81,82],{},"Node-RED Forums",[10,84,85,86,91],{},"The ",[23,87,90],{"href":88,"rel":89},"https:\u002F\u002Fdiscourse.nodered.org\u002F",[27],"Node-RED community forum"," is the go to place to get community support. It is a very popular community with over 900K page views per month. The amazing thing is that a very large percentage of questions receive replies from other community members. A great sign of a healthy community.",[10,93,94],{},"Overall, the Node-RED community is large, healthy and engaged.",{"title":96,"searchDepth":97,"depth":97,"links":98},"",2,[],"md",{"navTitle":5,"excerpt":101},{"type":7,"value":102},[103],[10,104,12],{},true,"\u002Fblog\u002F2023\u002F04\u002Fnodered-community-health",{"title":5,"description":12},"blog\u002F2023\u002F04\u002Fnodered-community-health","lf5wm62Y8IbouD2ycPbY2xjlpyuY6UCKbHgh4tiCg9s",1780132425465]