That's all useful feedback to us. There's always a balance to be had between putting lots of code in Function nodes and the visual complexity of doing the equivalent in pure nodes. Part of that is understanding where users are falling back to JS in a Function node - and what could the core nodes provide to avoid that necessity.
Code reviews are a common piece of feedback and something we need to help with.
In the day job (FlowFuse CTO) we're looking at how to improve the overall developer UX of Node-RED - both within node-red, but also how you manage it within a team and at scale.
If you had any more feedback on your experiences, would love to hear it.
As ever, I think each has its strengths and weaknesses, but I know which one I prefer...
In terms of 'out of the box' experience, I do agree there is space for some improved Node-RED nodes to support some of these workflows. There certainly are nodes in the community to help, but there's space for more. And that's an area I think gives Node-RED an advantage; the open source nature that allows anyone to build in the gaps of what's already there. Node-RED provides plenty of low-level building blocks to connect with pretty much anything - but having higher level abstraction nodes is needed to make it more accessible.
It's also an area we're looking at in my day job (FlowFuse CTO) where we provide a commercial platform built around Node-RED.
That's all useful feedback to us. There's always a balance to be had between putting lots of code in Function nodes and the visual complexity of doing the equivalent in pure nodes. Part of that is understanding where users are falling back to JS in a Function node - and what could the core nodes provide to avoid that necessity.
Code reviews are a common piece of feedback and something we need to help with.
In the day job (FlowFuse CTO) we're looking at how to improve the overall developer UX of Node-RED - both within node-red, but also how you manage it within a team and at scale.
If you had any more feedback on your experiences, would love to hear it.