# How could I collaborate with team members properly?

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-could-i-collaborate-with-team-members-properly/90334>\
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**Created:** [22 August 2024 14:38 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-could-i-collaborate-with-team-members-properly/90334 "2024-08-22T14:38:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Gustavo-Amaral](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/gustavo-amaral/32/93752_2.png) [@Gustavo-Amaral](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Gustavo-Amaral)\
**Post date:** [22 August 2024 14:38 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-could-i-collaborate-with-team-members-properly/90334/1 "2024-08-22T14:38:24Z")

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Hello there,

I am way new to Node-RED and I would like to be able to collaborate with team members in order to develop a new solution for EVSEs. However, I do have some issues in mind that my team is in some trouble to figure out a proper solution.

Here is what is happening: We are trying to collaborate between multiple devs and, everytime one of us makes a change, that change overwrite what other people were working on. For example, imagine that I was working on "flow 1" but a colleague worked and deployed something on "flow 2". His change would get merged into my work but this "merge" would erase my work and place his in place. Bottomline is, I would have to do it all over again, after his deploy.

Is there a way to collaborate properly? someway to merge things but not erase other changes that are undergoing?

And also a curiosity. What would happen if I was working on flow 1, somebody else was also working on the same flow and we were implementing nodes on the same X and Y axis? What would happen if we tried to merge it?

Thanks in advance for the help!

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**Author:** ![gdziuba](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/gdziuba/32/81398_2.png) [@gdziuba](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/gdziuba)\
**Post date:** [22 August 2024 14:41 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-could-i-collaborate-with-team-members-properly/90334/2 "2024-08-22T14:41:17Z")

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I think this highlights the problem that you are experiencing and may help you.

> **[Node-RED 4: Bringing better collaboration to FlowFuse Cloud • FlowFuse](https://flowfuse.com/blog/2024/06/node-red-4-on-flowfuse-cloud/)**
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> Find out about the new Node-RED 4 release and what it brings to FlowFuse Cloud

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**Author:** ![Gustavo-Amaral](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/gustavo-amaral/32/93752_2.png) [@Gustavo-Amaral](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Gustavo-Amaral)\
**Post date:** [22 August 2024 15:21 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-could-i-collaborate-with-team-members-properly/90334/3 "2024-08-22T15:21:10Z")

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Hello @gdziuba, I have taken a look at it and it seems to be promising but we are facing something more complicated... We are stuck at Node-RED v3.0.2 and we are unable to update it since we are using OEM hardware.

Is there any way possible to collaborate without relying on FlowFuse or Node-RED 4.0?

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**Author:** ![E1cid](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/e1cid/32/77971_2.png) [@E1cid](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/E1cid)\
**Post date:** [22 August 2024 15:21 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-could-i-collaborate-with-team-members-properly/90334/4 "2024-08-22T15:21:30Z")

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There is also multiplayer mode [Version 4.0 released : Node-RED](https://nodered.org/blog/2024/06/20/version-4-0-released#multiplayer-mode)  
[edit] posted the same time you posted stating you are stuck using node-red v3

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**Author:** ![gdziuba](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/gdziuba/32/81398_2.png) [@gdziuba](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/gdziuba)\
**Post date:** [22 August 2024 15:22 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-could-i-collaborate-with-team-members-properly/90334/5 "2024-08-22T15:22:40Z")

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Not that I am aware of. Which OEM equipment are you using?

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**Author:** ![Gustavo-Amaral](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/gustavo-amaral/32/93752_2.png) [@Gustavo-Amaral](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Gustavo-Amaral)\
**Post date:** [22 August 2024 15:24 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-could-i-collaborate-with-team-members-properly/90334/6 "2024-08-22T15:24:35Z")

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Vector vSECC

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**Author:** ![gdziuba](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/gdziuba/32/81398_2.png) [@gdziuba](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/gdziuba)\
**Post date:** [22 August 2024 15:34 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-could-i-collaborate-with-team-members-properly/90334/7 "2024-08-22T15:34:32Z")

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Interesting. I couldn't find any documentation on Node-RED. However, this sounds like an OEM discussion to see if they would provide a pathway to upgrade Node-RED, because there doesn't seem a way to get CLI access.

There are alternatives, but I imagine the hardware isn't changing given the usecase of the product.

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**Author:** ![Gustavo-Amaral](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/gustavo-amaral/32/93752_2.png) [@Gustavo-Amaral](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Gustavo-Amaral)\
**Post date:** [22 August 2024 16:04 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-could-i-collaborate-with-team-members-properly/90334/8 "2024-08-22T16:04:00Z")

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Yeah, for now we are unable to change the hardware. We have already sent an e-mail to them in order to talk about upgrading Node-RED and also making FlowFuse and "Projects" feature available but still no response.

I appreciate the help, anyway.  
Thank you so much @gdziuba.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/1X/d073cd938eafa2e558d7c2cd59003b3ef4963033.png) [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [9 September 2024 11:09 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-could-i-collaborate-with-team-members-properly/90334/9 "2024-09-09T11:09:56Z")

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