Hello everyone! I am currently working on a project where I want to store settings (e.g. "filter_on = true") inside a textfile. I want to use these variables for later use in the flows, for example inside a switch-node. Currently, I am using the flow context: [image] So my main idea is to trigg…

You can use ENV vars for secrets. Any where you can type ${MY_SECRET} it will get converted in the runtime to the ENV VAR value. If you want to read/write values from file, there are contrib nodes that already exist (search the flows lib)

Is there a reason you don't want to use persistent context variables? If you really do want to roll your own, put the data into a JS object so that you can store it as JSON (which is, I think, what the persistent context store does for you).

[image] TotallyInformation: Is there a reason you don't want to use persistent context variables? Oh, I've never heard of persistent context before^^ I will definitely try this for my non-sensitive data

Here is something that may help you understand: [image] A guide to understanding 'Persistent Context' General This is something I wrote up after playing with the context options. I've filed a PR with some of this added to the Node-RED documentation but thought I'd release…

Thank you :slight_smile: This post is way more helpful than the link provided in the settings.js

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Store variables in files for use in flow?

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zenofmud 15 August 2022 08:29 5

Here is something that may help you understand:

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Store variables in files for use in flow?

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