An idea for third-party UI in ui-builder

[jackcarey]

@TotallyInformation

If we could make it easier to create edit panels that have flexible typed inputs, that would be a nice addition to Node-RED as a whole, not just UIBUILDER.

Agreed on all of this. It’s something we actually spoke about last year: Ideas for Node Authoring: Auto-HTML Generation, Rendering Extra Info, Type-checking, Multiple Inputs

@TotallyInformation

But here, perhaps might be another approach. A node that can easily be used to manipulate certain aspects of a msg containing a _ui property. Specifically, one that can add/change the top-level parent.

I think this is a good idea uib-override or uib-config could be more appropriate names?