# Customise Node-red using APIs
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/customise-node-red-using-apis/67926
**Category:** General
**Created:** [19 September 2022 12:59 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/customise-node-red-using-apis/67926 "2022-09-19T12:59:14Z")
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### Author:  [@elvisj007](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/elvisj007)
#### Post date: [19 September 2022 12:59 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/customise-node-red-using-apis/67926/1 "2022-09-19T12:59:14Z")
I am trying to make a node-red application as lite as possible.
I understand different API's contribute to different functionality/components of the application.
How can i use [API Reference : Node-RED](https://nodered.org/docs/api/) to customise the app like a developer wants for his usecase.
For example,
If i only want to run the node-red application using only the run time modules or i want to remove the editor component( UI components) of the node-red (because after the flow is deployed it is not needed during the application runtime on a device)
How do i acheive this? from where should i start??
#general #development
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### Author:  [@knolleary](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/knolleary)
#### Post date: [19 September 2022 15:15 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/customise-node-red-using-apis/67926/2 "2022-09-19T15:15:10Z")
If you want to disable the editor then you can set `disbaleEditor` in your settings file.
If you want to completely disable the admin API to prevent any sort of update, you can set `httpAdminRoot` to `false`.
[https://nodered.org/docs/user-guide/runtime/configuration](https://nodered.org/docs/user-guide/runtime/configuration)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [18 November 2022 15:15 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/customise-node-red-using-apis/67926/3 "2022-11-18T15:15:22Z")
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