How to Write a function?

[Steve-Mcl]

@fredshortlv129bis

What is still not clear to me : is the syntax of the return payload JS or JSon

JSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation

Read this post I wrote some time back - I think it's fairly clear for folk new to all this.

Object vs strings - extract a value from a split

You need to understand the differnece (and advantage) of using objects and properties in node-red (and JavaScript in general). For example, if you have an object, there is ZERO need to split strings etc. JSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation - meaning it is a string representation of a JS object - which is useful for transmitting between devices and across the internet (they all do strings right!). That is why JSON is so popular - because it is REALLY EASILY convert to/from object/string…