Node-red is indeed great, and useful even for novice users that can't code, while still being powerful for power users that want to write JS.
I run Home Assistant (on their Hassio OS) on a raspberry pi2, which includes integration for Tasmota, ESPHome, Node-red, MQTT server, influxdb, plex server, presence detection, and more, all through a polished web ui.
I highly recommend it if you're looking to tie together a bunch of IoT devices. For me it has become my central location to manage all my "smart" home devices, and is essentially the glue that holds it all together while providing a pleasant UX for managing it all.
With the integration of Node-red, it provides nodes that represent your Home Assistant based sensors/switches so you can easily read/write their values within your Node-red flow.
It might be worth looking at ESPHome (https://esphome.io/), it's very similar to Tasmota but modular and is configured via yaml files. It also supports OTA updates for firmware/config changes (after the initial flash).
I feel ESPHome scales better than Tasmota for these reasons - no need to visit the individual web UI's for each Tasmota device, using ESPHome you can update your configs from a central web UI and then push the changes to your devices via wifi.
TLDR; Tasmota is great for bespoke devices, but IMO ESPHome is better because it's modular and supports OTA updates.
Far too often I build a project, only to get ready to deploy it, then struggle to think of a name/domain for it.
Then coupled with the thought of struggling to market the project, I end up fizzling out at that stage.
If I already have users of the project, then I'll deploy it as a subdomain and forget about it until a user complains.