# Best practice for installation of node-red and custom node

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**Created:** [9 March 2020 11:31 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/best-practice-for-installation-of-node-red-and-custom-node/22850 "2020-03-09T11:31:49Z")\
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I prefer having everything as local as possible.

See this post: [Multiple node red instances](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/multiple-node-red-instances/18002/2)

That has the advantage of running multiple instances with different node sets and possibly different versions of Node-RED.

As for your second question:  
Install all custom nodes in your workspace (where the flows.json is stored, `.node-red` by default) and setup this workspace as NodeJS project with a package.json (`npm init`). That way you can keep track of your dependencies.

I'd also recommend versioning each workspace as Git repo.

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