Announce node-red-contrib-msg-toggle (Feedback request)

[knolleary]

@BartButenaers

Would be nice to have feedback on how I could improve my node further.

Regardless of the merits of the functionality, customising the appearance of the node like that is completely unsupported.

We reserve the right to change how the drawing code works at any time without worrying about it breaking things like this.

Breaking changes are likely to happen in 1.0 as we change the underlying CSS structure of the whole editor to tidy it up.

As for the functionality, let me repeat what I said in the previous thread:

@knolleary

We have no precedent for having a node in the middle of a flow that has a button or state that can be toggled in the editor without a deploy. The UI design work to get that right is not trivial.

I understand what functionality you want. I'm not ignoring it. But I do have to align it with work we already have underway and work we have planned.

Further down the line we have plans for a flow debugger (after 1.0 ships). I would not want to rush something in now that introduces new UI concepts at this stage of getting to 1.0, particularly when it overlaps with a whole area of functionality we want to focus on later this year.

None of that has changed in the four days since I posted it.