# Modernization survey results now available

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**Created:** [1 December 2025 17:15 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/modernization-survey-results-now-available/99830 "2025-12-01T17:15:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![knolleary](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/knolleary/32/3_2.png) [@knolleary](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/knolleary)\
**Post date:** [1 December 2025 17:15 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/modernization-survey-results-now-available/99830/1 "2025-12-01T17:15:37Z")

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Earlier this year we ran a community survey focussed on modernizing the overall Node-RED user experience.

I shared some of the results in my Node-RED Con talk last month, but we've now made the full results available to the community.

The write-up of the results is live on the project blog here:

> **[Modernization Survey Results](https://nodered.org/blog/2025/12/01/modernization-survey-results)**
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> Conclusions for Node-RED's Modernization Survey 2025 Results

You'll find a link from there to the full results that you can explore for yourself.

We'll have more news later this week on how we're turning these results into a roadmap for Node-RED 5.0.

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**Author:** ![gregorius](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/gregorius/32/73816_2.png) [@gregorius](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/gregorius)\
**Post date:** [1 December 2025 18:03 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/modernization-survey-results-now-available/99830/2 "2025-12-01T18:03:21Z")

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> We can see that version control appears again as the #1 blocker with 40% for production-users versus only 16% for hobbyists.

There is a tool that I created which allows - visual comparison - of deployed flow and editor flow --\> [flowcompare](https://flows.nodered.org/node/@gregoriusrippenstein/node-red-contrib-flowcompare). Basically it solves the "blue dot" & "red deploy button" - what did I change situation.

A more extensive visual control solution are the [flowhub nodes](https://flows.nodered.org/node/@gregoriusrippenstein/node-red-contrib-flowhub) which manage flow storage to github. The workflow FlowHub supports is storing individual flows to a github repository and being able to compare those flows - visually inside NR - before pushing updates to github. It also allows for multiple repositories so that - for example - I can store flows to private repositories and others to a public repositories.

I recently demonstrated how I use this by creating a VDA 5050 [simulation flow](https://github.com/gorenje/vda5050_erlang_red) combining Erlang-Red and Node-RED. In that example, I also demonstrated how I can share flows between the two NR instances using FlowHub - thus I can share flows across multiple instances of NR or Erlang-Red or Erlang-Red and Node-RED.

> Debugging flows is the top frustration for hobbyists at 27%, while production-users seem more comfortable here at 20%,

I would suggest trying [clamp mode](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/should-debug-nodes-be-capable-of-passing-the-message-forwards/95044/103) to see message flows in live without deploying or adding debug nodes. This is part of the [introspection](https://flows.nodered.org/node/@gregoriusrippenstein/node-red-contrib-introspection) package.

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**Author:** ![dimitrieh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/dimitrieh/32/101708_2.png) [@dimitrieh](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dimitrieh)\
**Post date:** [4 December 2025 14:27 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/modernization-survey-results-now-available/99830/3 "2025-12-04T14:27:01Z")

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FYI the survey results website: [The State of Node-RED's User Experience 2025 - Survey Results](https://nodered.org/community-survey/) has been updated as well to link back to the survey results blogpost!

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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:** [2 February 2026 14:27 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/modernization-survey-results-now-available/99830/4 "2026-02-02T14:27:29Z")

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