Hey y'all In the last month, I have seen a slight increase in the need to package subflows as modules, and the guide to do that is here : Packaging a Subflow as a module : Node-RED . This is currently a manual affair. And one of the time consuming parts, is to manually make changes to the export …

Anytime! It should still be current (hopefully) - was tested of course in 3.1

Yes, it is working well with 4.0.0 Beta 1. By adding a JSON node with Format JSON String selected and a file out node then it can generate the subflow.json file directly.

@marcus-j-davies note there is a nasty issue which I am sure is an oversight - must admit it took me a bit to figure out what it was ! nothing to do with function code, but because you are using a template node and you left the default Format as Mustache template, it triggers replacements of special…

I think you definitely deserve the 'Debugger of the Month` award for finding that. I can imagine it was a nightmare to track down.

Nice Spot @nileio :man_bowing: @Colin , can you edit with the below? - I dont have the rights being it's been too long. updates: Set to Plain Text Output as JSON [{"id":"b7329b63e35ef370","type":"tab","label":"Subflow To Module Helper","disabled":false,"info":"","env":[]},{"id":"5ad4c1667cdee07…

[image] Colin: I think you definitely deserve the 'Debugger of the Month` award for finding that. I can imagine it was a nightmare to track down. Oh yeah sure did!! was a thorough mind training !! :smile:

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Colin 30 March 2024 14:25 2

Thank for this Marcus. Very useful.

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