Did you implement a custom merge dialog or something for when a user edits the frontend files from within nodered and somebody else edits them manually from outside nodered at the same time? So that the changes made from nodered wouldn’t interfere with the external changes made to the file in parallel when you deploy them?
Id be very interested in something like that.
I ll definitely take a look at the code of the ui builder node but im afraid ill be in way over my head as i have like no frontend experience 
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