Building third party D2 nodes - dynamic properties

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Is there some dashboard 2 built in functionality to aid in the use of dynamic properties in third party nodes? Looking at the code for built in nodes there does appear to be such functionality. It doesn't seem to be documented in Building Third Party Widgets | Node-RED Dashboard 2.0

On a point of order, should questions about third party node development for D2 be in the Dashboard category, or Developing nodes category? In either case with the tag dashboard-2.

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there was a quick discussion between Joe and I about adding helper functions but time was against us.

I would personally like to see the dashboard provide these so that we get consistent design pattern support.

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There was a big re-write this week, and the dynamic property helper function for core widgets was added to the dataTracker.

I documented best practices to follow when implementing it from an architecture/structure perspective, i.e. msg.ui_update.<property>, but not from a coding perspective for third party widgets yet

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It would be good to have that, but there is no panic on my part, I can wait.

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