Having battled (and still battling as we speak) with adding extra features to an existing simple contrib node, I think it would be a REALLY good idea to have a slightly (just a bit) more complex example than just the current lower-case one. I.e - one with fields and properties etc If you've been…

I think something like that would have been useful for me too. I have developed a couple of nodes previously but much has changed since I did that (typed inputs etc) so I was almost starting again when I came to build another one. A working example that I could have taken as a template to build on …

That'd be good as long as the real code to do the processing of the message wasn't too complex. I'll have a look around

Yeah problem is if you want to demonstrate lots of UI options, it’ll probably then be more complex inside as well.

I guess you are mostly concerned about the editor? What about finding some nodes that implement advanced features and then strip them down until only the core functionality remains. With core functionality I mean the editor feature you want to have and not any functionality of the original node its…

[image] dceejay: Or maybe there is an existing node in node-red-nodes (or elsewhere) that could be better documented and pointed at Dare I point out that I have a test node on GitHub? Not published to npm of course and may be slightly dated in a couple of places but I use it to help me rememb…

Link dear Henry, dear Henry....

I see that I haven't updated it for a while. I might need to see if I made any local changes that haven't been pushed back. [image] TotallyInformation/node-red-contrib-jktesting Test nodes for Node-RED for learning and experimenting, best practice, lots of hints and notes - TotallyInforma…

#Eeek - that's Second Stage Lensman stuff :slight_smile: I'm thinking of something that incorporates Nick's html file example stuff as a progression from the basic lowercase.html (along with how adding in extra fields is accessed in the matching .js file - especially dealing with default propertie…

Ha ha. E.E.Smith reference, like it. Most of it is comments. It should make sense if you have a play with it.

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you may indeed dare - I do now recall you mentioning it.

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