[announce] node-red-contrib-interactive-inject

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Hello everyone,

My new "interactive inject" node makes developing and debugging flows easier by allowing you to inject values interactively directly from the canvas.

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I've released it over a week ago and it seems to get quite some downloads (also getting lots of positive feedback on how people were missing this functionality).

There are two use cases for this node: the slider mode and the preset mode. In the slider mode you configure the min, max, step, and default, and whether the node should inject on change.
In the preset mode you can define button labels + values. If you define the content as jsonata it allows you to use the label for reference.

While the node works really nice and easy, it does deliberately break the "editor is not a dashboard" rule mentioned here: Node appearance : Node-RED. Though countering that is that this is an inject node, which is mentioned to be excluded from that rule.

Anyway, curious to hear your feedback on the node-red-contrib-interactive-inject node.

Best,
Dirk-Jan

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Not tried it yet but I can see lots of uses for it. Nice. :smiley:

I wonder if the slider version could be collapsed somewhat though to make it take up less room?

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Collapsing is a great suggestion. I can even see that working for both nodes.

I did notice that creating a group with the node in does make it go over the borders of the group. But doubt that the node can do much about that (apart from collapsing).