🚀 [FlexDash] alpha release - a dashboard for Node-RED

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@dceejay

There were 2 (or 3) inter-related thoughts here.

The main one being could we create "super widgets" out of a small group of widgets - such that they could be re-used... eg a group containing a gauge with text and led - that you "fix" the layout of - but can then re-use multiple times for a whole set of readings from different devices or rooms etc.

Currently this can be done in FlexDash. The "super widget" takes the form of a SubflowPanel, which can only be placed into a grid. It cannot be placed into a regular panel, which would be desirable.

I tweaked the current panel layout machinery so it works pretty well to create such widget assemblies but eventually someone should come up with alternatives.

@dceejay

Part 2 of that was could this super-widget then be "exported" as a package that could then be re-imported to another flow. IE this is the UI version of subflows.

I haven't tried creating a package from a subflow with a subflow panel. The subflow panel is a config node that is associated with the subflow. I would assume that gets exported. It doesn't depend on the grid since it's subflow instance nodes that are "in the grid". Something to try...

Thanks for pointing out the package angle, I hadn't considered that at all!