Node-red is very much drag and drop, although very nice, it is not fast when you have a large number of nodes installed in the palette.
I got a brainwave - what if you could use the cmd-shift-p command window to type in the nodes (with tab autocompletion) separated by a space and the editor adds them to the flow upon enter.
eg.
which would expand to (yes typo in mysl)
Perhaps under a submenu, create flow: ... (to make it technically work in the current action window)
It's hardly a CLI but if you drag a wire away from a node and drop it in empty space you get a dropdown choice of nodes to create there.
No idea how it chooses the nodes at the top, recent use maybe.
Snap!
And we both get the same nodes at the top.
The top 5 are fixed
The dream! Something like emmet for Node-RED would be amazing. I've requested similar key entry and other ideas like parameterised flow templates but in the end, being 100% honest, the great majority would still drag and drop sadly.
The problem with templates is that there aren't really any with NR.
What could be a good idea is to add the nodes to the workspace with a command (the purpose here). This saves time because we don't have to search for each node anymore.
Me in 2025....
'Hey Node-Red, add an inject node connected to a change node and a debug node and deploy'
A worthwhile enhancement for them to be customisable?
The top 4 are also visible in the palette without scrolling.
Although I like it, but in reality it would take more time than dragging and dropping 
'emmet' like interface would actually be very fast (if you are used to it).
Are you offering ?
Honestly I know I should.
I would do but JavaScript is not my native language, I'm more fluent in bash and sql.
I have previously got as far as forking (?) on GitHub but not written a single semicolon.
I need hand-holding!
That's OK, I don't use semi-colons in JavaScript either! 
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