Best practice for use of Done and Error

[JGKK]

Just to keep in mind that’s the new way that is not backwards compatible. Pre 1.0 or 1.2 compatibility would mean to use something like:

(done) ? done(err) : node.error(err);

As those older nodered versions don’t have the done function and in the new functions you should only call node.error() if for some reason you already called done() and an error happens afterwards for example in the on close function or doing async work.
At least that’s how I understand it.

Edit:
I also previously had the discussion when to call done in some edge cases here:

Use of msg, send, done in node that can also be triggered by button & more than one input msg to one logical process, when to call done?

Hello, little question here: For my sox record node i have the option that the user can choose whether to start recording on an input message or have no input but a button like the inject node instead to start and stop. So i just started implementing the 1.0 things like using send and done to tell the runtime when the node is done recording. So my question is do i somehow have access to the done function when the node was started with the button? As now the record function gets called from the…