How to autoinstall external nodes when importing flows

General
1

Hi everyone,

Lately I need to import different flows to my Node-RED, with nodes that are not installed by default, and I was wondering if there is a parameter in the configuration or a way to auto-install them automatically.
I have also gone to the settings file, I have uncommented the three autoinstall parameters in the externalModules field, but I see that the external nodes are not installed automatically when imported.

I would appreciate your help. Thank you in advance!

Q.

2

If not automatic, it would be nice to know somehow which modules need to be installed that contain the imported nodes.

3

Are you cloning a working system? If so then if you copy package.json across to the new machine and go into the .node-red directory and run
npm install
it will install the nodes.
Otherwise the answer is no. The flows file does not contain details of which packages are installed. I believe that this is on the list of things that could be improved when time allows.

4

This topic was automatically closed 60 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.