[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":124},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-\u002Fblog\u002F2023\u002F04\u002Fnodered-community-health":3,"blog-all-for-related":123},{"id":4,"title":5,"authors":6,"body":8,"cta":101,"date":102,"description":103,"extension":104,"image":105,"lastUpdated":101,"meta":106,"navigation":111,"path":112,"seo":113,"sitemap":114,"stem":115,"subtitle":116,"tags":117,"tldr":101,"video":101,"__hash__":122},"blog\u002Fblog\u002F2023\u002F04\u002Fnodered-community-health.md","Node-RED Community Health",[7],"ian-skerrett",{"type":9,"value":10,"toc":97},"minimark",[11,15,21,32,37,46,51,60,65,80,85,94],[12,13,14],"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.",[12,16,17],{},[18,19,20],"strong",{},"GitHub Stars",[12,22,23,24,31],{},"A popular method for demonstrating popularity of an open source project are GitHub stars. Node-RED has over 16K stars and when ",[25,26,30],"a",{"href":27,"rel":28},"https:\u002F\u002Fsynodus.com\u002Fblog\u002Flow-code\u002Fopen-source-low-code-platforms\u002F",[29],"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.",[12,33,34],{},[18,35,36],{},"Node-RED Library",[12,38,39,40,45],{},"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 ",[25,41,44],{"href":42,"rel":43},"https:\u002F\u002Fflows.nodered.org\u002Fsearch?type=node&sort=downloads",[29],"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.",[12,47,48],{},[18,49,50],{},"Node-RED Website Traffic",[12,52,53,54,59],{},"In the last year, Node-RED has had over 1.9 million unique visitors to the ",[25,55,58],{"href":56,"rel":57},"https:\u002F\u002Fnodered.org\u002F",[29],"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.",[12,61,62],{},[18,63,64],{},"NPM Downloads & Docker Pull Requests",[12,66,67,68,73,74,79],{},"Node-RED is installed by lots of people using Docker and NPM. The project averages over 500K\u002Fmonth pull requests from ",[25,69,72],{"href":70,"rel":71},"https:\u002F\u002Fhub.docker.com\u002Fr\u002Fnodered\u002Fnode-red",[29],"Docker Hub"," and 100K\u002Fmonth pull requests on ",[25,75,78],{"href":76,"rel":77},"https:\u002F\u002Fnpm-stat.com\u002Fcharts.html?package=node-red&from=2017-03-22&to=2023-03-22",[29],"NPM",".",[12,81,82],{},[18,83,84],{},"Node-RED Forums",[12,86,87,88,93],{},"The ",[25,89,92],{"href":90,"rel":91},"https:\u002F\u002Fdiscourse.nodered.org\u002F",[29],"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.",[12,95,96],{},"Overall, the Node-RED community is large, healthy and engaged.",{"title":98,"searchDepth":99,"depth":99,"links":100},"",4,[],null,"2023-04-13","A summary of the Node-RED community metrics that demostrates a large and engaging community.","md","\u002Fimages\u002Fblog\u002Ftile-node-red-community-metrics.jpg",{"excerpt":107},{"type":9,"value":108},[109],[12,110,14],{},true,"\u002Fblog\u002F2023\u002F04\u002Fnodered-community-health",{"title":5,"description":103},{"loc":112},"blog\u002F2023\u002F04\u002Fnodered-community-health","Node-RED community metrics",[118,119,120,121],"posts","node-red","community","news","hbHJgFL-AmfTdx2dbGdqo0KyXrf-m-iUNk11cJd6BC0",[],1785528685300]