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Comment by petersirka | Hacker News Reader

Total.js Flow is an excellent and modern Visual Programming Interface for low-code development. It's a viable alternative to Node-RED and fully open-source under the MIT license.

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What differentiates Total.js Flow from Node-RED? Were there frustrations with Node-RED that it was felt were best solved starting over?

At a glance it looks good, but unclear why one would switch.

- multithreading - better design collected from our Web components https://componentator.com - without third party dependencies (in the core) - online chat support with authors and contributors (https://t.me/totaljs) - a lot of (open source) helpers like UI Builder - https://uibuilder.totaljs.com (released soon), Total DB - https://github.com/totaljs/totaldb (released soon), OpenMail, OpenTemplates, OpenAuth, etc..

- multithreading

- better design collected from our Web components https://componentator.com

- without third party dependencies (in the core)

- online chat support with authors and contributors (https://t.me/totaljs)

A lot of (open source) helpers like

- UI Builder https://uibuilder.totaljs.com (released soon),

- Total DB https://github.com/totaljs/totaldb (released soon),

- OpenMail, OpenTemplates, OpenAuth, etc..

It'd be nice for HN to support bulleted lists, so we could go for readability without using blank lines.

Eh, you pay just a tiny bit of attention to your comment right after making it, you'll realize how to do it.

From your website

>The main parts of the Total.js Platform are fully open-source

That implies that parts aren't open source?

Except for Total.js API service, payments and Cloud, all parts are open-source under MIT. All of our projects are under the MIT license, but some projects are considered private.

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