The force layout settled roughly square, so in a wide band the graph sat as a
small island. Vertical centring now pulls nearly three times as hard as
horizontal and the seed sits on an ellipse, which settles at about 2.2:1
without stretching the circles or the edges.
The graph also slid in on load: the rebuild fit ran with a 300ms duration, so
React Flow animated the pan from its default viewport to the content. The fit
is instant now, and the canvas grows in from the centre with `scaleIn` once it
has a layout.
The pinned chart header said "Esc clears", which a phone cannot act on. It
carries the same "× Clear" button as the list header instead; Escape still
works.
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/observability/runs gains since/until, so the throughput chart's pin asks
the server for its minute instead of filtering a fixed recent list. This
engine writes ~60 runs a minute, so any minute but the newest read empty.
since is inclusive and until exclusive, matching the minute buckets the
charts are drawn from. Hover stays the client-side preview it was:
scrubbing a day would otherwise be a request per minute rested on.
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Home is the one overview now: the brain graph flat across the top, the flow
switches, then the health sections. The /brain and /health routes and their
sidebar entries are gone.
- charts report their cursor and clicks, so hovering one filters the list
beside it to that minute and a click pins it until Escape or Clear
- chart values round to about three significant digits, the legend mounts
under the plot so it can wrap without leaving the card, and axis ticks
shorten past a thousand
- the embedded brain leaves the wheel to the page rather than zooming
- number fields no longer draw their up/down spinner (NOTEPAD)
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The worker script is handed to the interpreter by path, so app/flow was
sys.path[0] for every node: `import queue` got the engine's. It now drops
its own directory before anything else imports, and runs with the
deployment's credentials scrubbed out of its environment.
Also: reload builds off the event loop, the pool wakes what is blocked on
it when it stops, a refused metrics flush is kept for the next one rather
than dropped, and the cascade events are paired through failures.
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A standalone harness, never part of the test run, that drives a real stack
through the durable path — the webhook, which journals every trigger — and
then stops Redis, kills the engine mid-cascade and restarts the broker
under a live subscription. Latest-value-wins with concurrent cascades means
counter equality is not a promise, so what it asserts is that the queue
drains, that state ends on the last value sent, and that nothing reached
the dead-letter stream.
Every docker verb goes through one helper that checks the compose label
before it acts and refuses anything outside this project, because the
machines this runs on host unrelated services.
Two invariants are deliberately looser than they look. The queue belongs to
the whole stack, so "nothing pending" would be measuring other people's
traffic; the harness waits on the age of the oldest unacknowledged entry
instead, which a stuck item always dominates. And the observability tables
are cleared only after the collector's flush interval has passed, since
deleting a flow publishes an audit event of its own.
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A node type can now say which outside thing its parameters point at, and
nodes sharing one — a broker topic, a URL, a bucket — are drawn as a single
neuron on a new /brain canvas. That makes the wiring which runs between
flows through a broker visible for the first time; no single flow's canvas
can show it. The key is read off stored parameters, so a credential
reference never reaches an id.
Layout is a d3 force simulation settled once and then frozen, lit by the
socket the editor already listens to: a neuron pulses when any node behind
it publishes, and its connections light as values pass.
Fixes the message pulse while here: interpolating the stroke against the
edge's `color-mix()` resting colour went through oklab and left the gamut,
which turned every pulse on both canvases fluorescent yellow.
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A second bus subscriber folds executions, errors, timings and queue lag
into per-minute rollups, keeps failures with their traceback and an audit
trail of who published what, and records one row per cascade — manual runs
and previews included, under an id of their own that writes no idempotency
markers. Read back through /observability/*, which always answers 200 so a
degraded engine still renders its own health screen.
Also fixes two things found on the way: node-health alerts read `status`
where the engine publishes `health`, so a device dropping never alerted
anyone, and the Redis queue reported `parked: 0` whatever was held.
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User code no longer execs in the engine. A pool of persistent worker
subprocesses speaks one JSON object per line; the controller installs a
proxy as the node's function, so every execution path funnels through it
and the pipeline is untouched. A crash costs one subprocess, a per-node
timeout is a kill, and cancelling from the canvas is that same kill.
The workers run a venv of the user's own on the data volume, filled from
a pip manifest versioned beside the flows. Applying it retires the
workers and rebuilds, so a package lands without restarting the engine.
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A dashboard now carries the canvas it is drawn for (canvas_width /
canvas_height, presets plus two numbers in the settings panel). Editor and
wall panel render that surface at its true pixel size and scale it to fit,
so a side panel opening changes only the scale — never the arrangement
being made. With the width and column count known the dot pitch is exact,
(width + gap) / columns by row height + gap, so a dot sits where every
widget corner snaps. The wall panel shows no dots.
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One shell for both editors. Flows and dashboards each get a searchable
overview under the padded shell, their editors move to the full-bleed
canvas, and the floating chrome is shared: a title bar that only says
what you are looking at, and a bottom dock carrying everything else —
the flow bar's status, settings and Publish moved down there, the
add-flow button moved to the overview.
Dashboards gain the rest of M4's visualization work:
- widgets are picked by clicking them, with the header as the drag
handle so a slider still slides and a switch still flips while
editing; settings moved into the flows' SidePanel
- react-grid-layout for drag and edge-resize, so the stored x/y finally
mean something; a dashboard nobody arranged is shelf-packed once
- a per-dashboard grid size, so a panel can be matched to its screen
- the chart widget, drawn with uPlot: several messages on one axis, fed
from the stored history plus the live socket tail, coloured from the
new --chart-1..5 ramp
- /view/{name}: the URL a wall panel is pointed at — no sidebar, no
footer, no editing, and no editor code, since routes are split
- a widget wired to a payload type it cannot carry, or wired to nothing
at all, carries the same red dot a failing node does; the picker
records the type it bound and WidgetDef refuses a mismatch on save
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Suggest a parameter's value from the nodes of the same type in every flow,
the way message names are already offered; secrets stay out of it. Explain
the cron fields, and derive the expression an interval asks for. Keep an
untouched function scaffold in step with the node's ports.
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The mqtt and influx node types had nothing to talk to locally; mosquitto and
influxdb fill that in, on the compose network only — no host port, since 1883
usually belongs to a real broker on the machine.
The same file's --reload only ever reloaded the source baked into the image:
develop.watch needs `docker compose watch`, and the dev stack starts detached.
A bind mount is what the standard flow actually reads.
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The job kept the fixed container names and the fixed 5432 that compose.ci.yml
resets for every other job, so a second run could not start. Layering that
file leaves the db on a port Docker assigns, which the suite is told about,
and the project name is now per run so one teardown cannot take another run's
database with it.
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The integrated stack drops every published host port, so make test-backend
could not reach Postgres on localhost:5432 whenever the stack it shares a
machine with was running. It now asks Docker where the container is; with the
stack down, .env still stands.
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mqtt, http, influx and delay carried the prototype's annotations and were
excluded wholesale. Annotating them leaves nothing to exclude: what the two
untyped dependencies need is an implicit-reexport allowance for
influxdb_client and the import-site ignore croniter already gets elsewhere.
InfluxDbNode.inject now takes the durable flag its supertype passes, and the
cron loop reads its stop event once instead of dereferencing a field that
stop_cron() may have cleared.
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The specs run against a development stack, so every run left a test_flow_*
in someone's flow list. Each spec now tears down what it made in an afterAll,
which runs whether or not the tests passed, and the three copies of the API
helper move into tests/utils/api.ts.
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Three things a pause and an interval were quietly losing:
- A rebuild builds a fresh pipeline, so nothing is paused any more and no
resume ever comes for what the old one parked. Release it on rebuild.
- POST /flows/{name}/step takes the oldest parked item and runs that one wave
while the flow stays paused, so a held-back cascade can be walked through.
Nothing parked answers plainly rather than failing.
- A per-port interval was leading-edge only: a producer going quiet inside the
window left the consumer on the value before it. The held value is kept and
a flush item scheduled on the queue's existing timer, so the window ends with
a delivery. One timer in flight per node, and none without a queue to run it.
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Outputs are keyed by port, so a bare value cannot be one. The single mapping
point every caller routes through raised a bare AttributeError from
retval.items(); it now names the problem, and the message reaches the node the
way its other errors do.
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The floating bars used to make way for a side panel, which hid Publish
exactly when a node had just been edited. They keep their lane now and
the panel is inset out of it; the enlarged code editor stays a floating
surface between the two bars rather than covering them.
Shortcuts are one small registry (`lib/shortcuts.ts`): undo, redo, ⌘K,
copy, paste, and ⌘S — which publishes the flow, or applies the code when
the editor has focus. Copying carries a node's own source through
localStorage, so a paste works in another flow too.
A flow is now named where a node is, at the top of its panel and only
there, and both take effect on Confirm. Flow-level edits go through the
undo stack with everything else, clicking the canvas puts the flow panel
away, a failing node opens the logs filtered to its own traceback, and
the panel carries its test id on a phone as well.
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The pulse named its own end colour, so a selected edge decayed to the
neutral stroke and snapped back to blue — a second pulse. Dropping the
`to` keyframe lets the animation land on whatever the edge rests at.
Clicking an edge now shows the same sparkline the node panel draws for
that message, so a single value is read against how it has been moving.
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An agent that registered itself was invisible, and withdrawing one meant
deleting rows or rotating the signing key. It now sits next to Users, with
the live-token count that tells an approved agent from one that only
registered.
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Two backends that had no way in: secrets could only be set through the API,
and alerting could only be configured by hand-editing its file. Both are
engine-wide operator settings rather than personal ones, so they get sidebar
entries of their own instead of tabs under the per-user Settings — and the
missing-secret error now names the place the page actually is.
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Superuser-only management for agents that registered themselves: list them
with whether anyone approved them, and withdraw one without rotating the
signing key and cutting off every other agent.
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Two things from using it. The label only jumped to its new place on
release: its position comes from a memo of ours rather than React Flow's
own store, so nothing moved it until the drag had already finished. It is
now updated on every drag frame, with the write to storage still happening
once at the end rather than once per pixel.
The edges deliberately do not depend on that position — an endpoint's
edges follow from which messages it touches, never from where it sits — so
dragging one no longer rebuilds the edge array on every frame.
And they sit further back at rest, so the nodes read first.
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Three things they were missing: they could not be dragged out of the lane
they were placed in, they stayed the same weight whether or not you were
reaching for one, and the label sat right against its connector dot.
Where one has been dragged to is a view preference, not part of the flow —
writing a position for a dashboard widget into flow.json would be a lie
about what the document holds — so it lives in the browser, keyed by flow.
Also folds the dashboard shot into `make verify` and drops the one-off
scripts that had accumulated beside it; the durable coverage is the
Playwright specs, which all pass.
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Moving a dashboard slider lit up an edge between two nodes that had done
nothing. The canvas pulsed on the message's timestamp alone, and a message
has no idea who published it — so it credited whichever node happened to
be drawn as a producer.
That was never only about dashboards. Two nodes producing one message
pulsed both their edges whichever fired, and a message produced in another
flow changed with nothing on screen to account for it at all.
Values now carry their cause: a node, a dashboard widget, another flow, an
agent or an API caller. An edge pulses only for the producer that actually
published, and the edge inspector says where a value came from when it did
not come from a node.
What is not a node in this flow is now drawn as one — a label rather than
a card, because a dashboard with twenty tiles would otherwise bury the
logic the canvas exists to show. That covers cross-flow wiring too, which
is the link in/out affordance that has been missing.
They are never part of the document. They join at render, after everything
that reads or writes the canvas nodes, so an autosave, an undo or a delete
cannot reach them — with a Playwright test that drags a node and asserts
the stored flow still holds exactly what it did.
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Installing the connectors made this fail, which is the test working: it
insists every offered type is exercised. But a connector is a separate
package with its own tests, so it is not this suite's to cover.
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A device read over a proprietary protocol was showing the fallback used
for a function node. A connector's type cannot be in the built-in icon
map — that is the point of it being a connector — so they share a plug.
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Widgets bind to a message name and read it live off the socket the editor
already had — lifted out of the flow editor so a dashboard route gets the
same values, which also gives the home page live data for free.
The input widgets close the loop the other way: a slider publishes into
the graph and whatever consumes that message runs. Verified end to end in
the running app — moving a slider set a flow input, and the stat bound to
what the flow computed from it followed.
View mode is plain CSS grid. A wall panel that only displays should not
download the code that lets someone drag things around, and it now does
not. Editing is a widget picker, a per-widget width control and a
settings card fed by the message catalog.
No new dependencies: the slider is a range input, the gauge is an arc,
and the markdown is a five-line subset. Charts are the one widget still
missing — they need a charting library and the chart tokens the design
guidelines reserved — so they are stored and validated but not offered.
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A dashboard is its own document rather than widgets placed in a flow.
Node-RED's dashboard tab is 260 nodes, about forty of them pure layout,
which is exactly what the small-graph principle exists to avoid — and
since the graph is already wired by message name, a widget can bind to a
name without belonging to any flow.
Stored beside the flows in the same repository, sharing their write lock
and commit, under a directory the flow listing ignores. No draft/publish
split: nothing executes a dashboard, so edit mode is its own staging area.
Two things it needs from the engine. A message catalog spanning every
flow, because a wall panel shows the heating next to the solar and the
flow-scoped API is the wrong shape for that. And a way to put a value in
without owning a node — a slider is a real value that happened to come
from a person — which runs whatever consumes it and applies the same type
check a node's output gets. Only a message some flow declares can be
published to; flows own the namespace.
Charts also need more past than the 120 points a sparkline wanted, so a
chart widget declares its depth and the engine keeps that message's
series that deep.
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A python node's params reach process() as whatever its author put there,
but there was no way to put anything there: the settings form is built
from a type's declared schema, and a function node declares none.
Node types now say whether they take settings beyond their schema, and
the panel offers a key/value editor for the ones that do — named, typed
as text, number, on/off or JSON, and laid out like the port list beside
it. Rows are keyed by position rather than by name, so renaming a setting
does not remount the row and lose what was being typed into it.
Verified in the running app in both themes.
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