Hi There, I come from Flow Based Programming (FBP) which is centred around message passing between independent processes. Probably the best analogy for FBP would be a conveyor belt: messages are created between various stations that alter the message before the message is passed of to the next stat…

Hi Gorenje! I did not know that FBP existed, but it seems that I used a similar approach for my erlang applications. In my projects I have similar scenarios and use-cases, so I defined some building blocks for my primitives, like socket servers, protocols, databases or the like. Most of them are …

Found this in my starred repos, but does not look like it’s been touched in a couple of years and I’m not sure how complete it is. [image] GitHub - erlmachine/erlmachine: The first flow-based Erlang OTP programming... The first flow-based Erlang OTP programming framework. …

[image] LeonardB: GitHub - erlmachine/erlmachine: The first flow-based Erlang OTP programming framework. Thank you, that’s exactly what I mean as a backend, it does not appear to have a visual frontend. What it does have is a yaml specification for a flow. I don’t quite understand how the wh…

Hi Dieter, Thanks for your reply! Your approach sounds a quite close to what I was thinking of … :wink: The thing is that Node-RED consists of two parts, a jQuery/Javascript frontend that generates a JSON array structure which, in turn, defines links between individual nodes. It is an extremely si…

[image] gorenje: My first question: is there a Erlang framework that implements FBP ideas? Some high level component where a graph describing the interconnectedness of processes is provided and a network of gen_servers are created along which messages could be passed - that’s at least how I imag…

Another Erlang project is Faxe: GitHub - heyoka/faxe It uses a domain specific language for flows.

Thank you for all the feedback, much inspired :+1: I’ve now created a repo to demonstrate how I have kind of sort of imagined it to work! It’s an extremely simple demo but the underlying workflow is this: take a Node-RED flows.json file containing nodes and their connections parse the JSON and c…