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.
Connectors are the device-facing node class third parties write, so the
surface they build against is versioned and documented: ConnectorNode carries
a declared contract version, a polling loop that publishes only what changed
and reports health around it, and parameters whose credential fields are
marked x-secret so the editor offers the secrets store instead of a text box.
They are found through the fluksio.node_types entry point group, with the
package's own metadata as the manifest. docs/connectors/ has the contract and
the authoring guide; connector-skeleton/ is a working one to copy.
The controller no longer knows what any node type is: start, stop and
report_health are protocol methods on Node, and the built-ins were migrated to
them first, so the hooks a connector implements are the ones the engine has
been driving all along.
Marking a node reusable moves its source to _lib/ and points the node at it by
name. Other flows instantiate it with their own ports and settings, one fix
reaches all of them, and a shared source still in use cannot be deleted.
Ports gained an interval: an output publishes, and an input wakes its node, at
most every n seconds. State keeps the latest value, so only the delivery is
skipped, and pressing Run is never throttled.
Also fixes autosave sending no version on its first save of a session, which
made every flow saved more than once conflict with itself.
A number in the panel says where a value is, not where it has been. Each
named port in Consumes and Provides now carries a sparkline under it,
fetched once on open and extended from the socket as values arrive, held
to the same 120-point window the server keeps.
Both lists render through the shared port row, so a sink node shows what
flows through it rather than nothing. A flat series draws its mid line
and drops the redundant range label, a lone reading is just its dot, and
a series spanning decades switches to a log scale with the labels left
in real units.
Opening a node or the flow settings now takes the flowbar and the dock
away, leaving the graph and the panel; they come back on close, leaving
by the same slideUp they arrive with. The panel header names the flow
before the node, `/heating/`, which is how messages are qualified
everywhere else.
Opening a flow already fitted, and pressing Fit to screen, disagreed:
one used a 0.25 padding capped at 1x, the other xyflow's defaults, so
the button visibly jumped and a small flow opened at 100% in an empty
canvas. Both read one constant now.
Deleting a node cost its source with no way back. Every mutation already
funnels through one commit, so undo/redo is a bounded stack of node
snapshots replayed through the same debounced save. Deleting a node only
drops it from flow.json — the source file survives — so restoring the id
restores the code. Renaming a message now offers to follow the rename
across every node still bound to the old name, as one undoable step.
Autosave never fired: flush depended on the whole mutation object, which
react-query rebuilds every render, so the effect re-ran and its cleanup
cancelled the pending timer. Unmounting now flushes rather than drops.
The canvas looked blurry zoomed out because Background scales the dot
radius by zoom, leaving quarter-pixel dots on a drifting tile; radius
and spacing now divide the zoom back out, spacing in octaves so the grid
halves. Edge value labels are opaque, the edge popover fits its summary
on one row with a trash icon and scrolls names that overflow, and flow
settings moved to the flowbar. The flowbar was sized against the
viewport rather than the canvas, so its buttons left the screen once
enough flows were open.
The shared duration tokens had been stretched to slow the pulses down, which
also slowed every panel and dock animation and left `motion.ts` out of step
with the CSS. Both are back to 200/300 ms, and the pulses use a new
`--duration-pulse` (500 ms): a message arriving is a signal, not a state
change, and it is the only thing here that should linger. The edge pulse read
its own 300 ms constant, so it now takes the token through `motion.ts` and the
two sides cannot drift again.
The code editor also expands: the same node panel fills the content region
beside the sidebar, the canvas chrome steps aside rather than floating on top,
and the settings above the editor keep a readable width.
- One dot per node now carries the whole story: primary while running, sage
after a good run, red when anything is wrong, with the explanation on hover.
The corner badge is gone, along with the second way of saying the same thing.
- A node that publishes something flashes a ring, so a running flow is legible
without reading the edge values. Nodes that consume but publish nothing stay
quiet, which is why the event carries an output count.
- Flow settings open in the same panel its nodes use, from a pencil in the
dock: the title, the name, and deleting the flow. NodePanel and FlowPanel
share the panel chrome rather than each drawing their own.
- Renaming is a server operation, because a flow's name is the namespace of its
messages: the directory moves and every other flow reading `old.message` is
repointed, instead of being left pointing at a flow that no longer exists.
- MQTT nodes failed to build: the topic map was renamed to talk in ports, but
__slots__ still declared the old name, so every MQTT node raised
AttributeError. Building one of each node type is now a test, since __slots__
makes this failure invisible until someone places the node.
- Port names offer the messages already in play: everything published is worth
reading, and an input nobody provides yet is worth publishing. A message only
connects when both ends spell it the same way, so choosing beats typing.
- Adding a port focuses its name field.
- Dragging onto an input that already reads something offers the extra port as
well as the replacement — an MQTT or InfluxDB node usually wants both.
- The template's Item model, its routes, screens and table are gone.
The browser half of M3. Flows open on a full-bleed canvas with their chrome
floating over it: flow tabs top, dock bottom, node settings in a panel on the
right that leaves the graph visible and running behind it.
- Connections are derived, not stored. A node declares the messages it reads
and publishes; every matching pair draws an edge, so two producers of one
message converge on their consumer. Dragging output to input is shorthand
for pointing that input at the producer's message, and asks before it
replaces an existing one.
- Values land on the edges as they flow, over a websocket that feeds a store
outside React, so a value arriving re-renders its own chip and nothing else.
Clicking an edge shows the last payload and when it arrived.
- Node source is edited in Monaco, loaded only when a panel opens and themed
from the design tokens.
- Edits autosave; identical documents are skipped server-side, so a quiet
canvas writes nothing.
- Validation from the API shows on the node it belongs to and is summarised in
the dock, where each entry pans to its node.
- Works on a phone: touch-connect, 44px dock targets, and the node panel
becomes a full-screen sheet.
Two new tokens (--status-success, --font-mono) are mirrored in the website repo
and recorded in DESIGN-GUIDELINES.md.
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