Node-RED Standalone Executable

[marcus-j-davies]

FWIW:

pkg embeds the node runtime, so that machines that is to run the executable, will not need nodejs to be installed.

As for configuring its environment at run time - you can pass any node-red command to it.

Portable-NR.exe --userDir ./Home --port 5000

You can actually embed your User DIR folder also.
but the flow will become read only, and deploys will fail, so its a final stage approach if you do that.

see my comment here:

Node-RED Standalone Executable

Hi @bakman2, Yes you can But there are a few things to watch for and do. You wont be able to make changes to the flow, trying to deploy will complain of a Read Only File System (See my image) You need to set the flows file and settings file as augments, when running the executable The virtual file system starts at /snapshot/<Folder-Name> or c:\snapshot\<Folder-Name> for win With all that in mind... Lets assume we are working in a directory called NR The folder in w…

[jgreenmt]

I understand now about the PC version and what was happening. Thanks to everyone for the explanations.

Does anyone have any advice on how to resolve the issue I mentioned with creating the binary for the rpi zero?