# Node-RED as a platform for complex web applications?

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**Created:** [28 August 2026 09:12 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-as-a-platform-for-complex-web-applications/101697 "2026-08-28T09:12:56Z")\
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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:** [28 August 2026 10:22 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-as-a-platform-for-complex-web-applications/101697/2 "2026-08-28T10:22:37Z")

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It was actually one of the first things I created with Node-RED: it was called [RedBack - Node-Red as Backend](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/redback-node-red-as-backend/74481/17) and lead to one of my favourite comments here at the forum:

> [@RedBack - Node-Red as Backend](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/redback-node-red-as-backend/74481/17):
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> What your looking to do is reinvent the wheel with the same wheel. What I would suggest is working with Node-RED as it is (Which is pretty dang great), and get familiar with what it is and does, then you can do amazing things.

So it has the potential to get misundertstood when using a web application to create another web application, even if you think it's amazing to create a _visual_ web application with Node-RED.

EDIT:

I continued on and my [blog on Node-RED](https://blog.openmindmap.org) is running NR with the content actually being the flows, i.e., articles are flows, there is no database backend to store content.

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