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Getting Started

This guide will help you get Node-RED installed and running in just a few minutes.

Pick where you want to run Node-RED, whether on your local computer, a device such as a Raspberry Pi or in the cloud and follow the guides below.

Running locally

Installing Node-RED on your local computer

Raspberry Pi

Get started using our all-in-one install script for the mighty Raspberry Pi

Docker

Running Node-RED using Docker

Install from git

Building Node-RED from source. Get the very latest development code and start contributing.

BeagleBone Boards

Running Node-RED on BeagleBone boards

Android

A bit experimental, but you can run on Android devices using Termux

IBM Cloud

Deploying Node-RED from the IBM Cloud catalog in a couple of clicks

AWS

Get started running on Elastic Beanstalk or EC2

Microsoft Azure

Running on an Azure Virtual Machine instance

FlowForge Community Edition

Running a multi tenant Node-RED solution

Node-RED: Low-code programming for event-driven applications.

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