Pros and Cons about using "custom" Functions vs the basic set of nodes

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BTW it may be intersting to see which nodes are most used.

I guess inject, debug, change, function

Here is a small contrib-node for the statistic: node-red-contrib-flow-statistics

My smart home on a RPi flow.json size 571KB

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	"comment": 61,
	"debug": 85,
	"delay": 13,
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	"file": 2,
	"flow-statistics": 1,
	"function": 60,
	"http in": 2,
	"http request": 5,
	"http response": 2,
	"hue-bridge": 1,
	"hue-light": 6,
	"inject": 198,
	"join": 1,
	"json": 27,
	"link in": 83,
	"link out": 74,
	"mqtt in": 36,
	"mqtt out": 44,
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	"netatmo-config-node": 1,
	"netatmo-dashboard": 1,
	"persist in": 19,
	"persist out": 19,
	"persist-store": 2,
	"ping": 6,
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	"rbe": 6,
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	"zwave-controller": 1,
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}