February 2019 - we are migrating away from this wiki to the node-red/designs repository. Please do not add any new designs to the wiki without first checking with @knolleary.

Design Notes are working documents where thoughts are fleshed out on different potential features. They are a space to think through on 'paper' how a feature may work.

They are not end-user documentation. They are not commitments to deliver a particular feature.

These design notes cover areas being actively worked on.

• Design: Subflow Enhancements
• Design: Using environment variables
• Design: msg.parts - description of usage
• Design: Platform Specific Nodes
• Design: Runnable Project
• Design: Node Messaging API
• Design: Subflow Node modules
• Design: Function Library node
• Design: Dynamic MQTT node
• Design: adminAuth User Management
• Design: Flow Linter

These design notes cover areas for the future - either as part of the 1.0 roadmap or beyond.

• Design: Editor UI Customisation
• Design: Library Sidebar
• Design: Node module lifecycle
• Design: Usage telemetry
• Design: subflows vNext
• Design: Flow file format v2
• Design: Editor Events
• Design: Runtime extension points

• 0.20: Design: Runtime/Editor Split
• 0.20: Design: Subflow Instance properties
• 0.19: Design: API Token management
• 0.19: Design: Persistable Context
• 0.18: Design: Projects
• 0.17: Design: Enhancements to Split/Join nodes - complete
• 0.17: Design: Node settings - complete
• 0.16: Design: Concurrent editing - complete
• 0.17: Design: Editable port labels - complete
• 0.15: Design: Palette Management UI - complete
• 0.15: Design: Encryption of credentials - complete
• Design: Editor Themes - complete
• Design: i18n - complete
• Design: multiuser - complete(ish)
• Design: subflows - complete(ish)
• Design: dynamic palette - complete(ish)
• npm installable nodes - complete
• Live runtime information - complete
• Design: Logging Framework
• Design: Version Control - superseded by Projects

• Pluggable Message Routing
• adminAuth Credential Authentication
• Web Nodes outline
• Architecture: Cluster / Multi Process