How to run node-red on Alpine Linux¶

• Table of contents
• How to run node-red on Alpine Linux
  • Introduction
  • Updating node-red

Introduction¶

This guide should help anyone to quickly get started with node-red on Alpine.

Assuming you have a running Alpine Linux installation, the following steps are required:

• Create an "app" user that runs node-red
• Install the following packets
  • build-base python git
• Clone the node-red repository as the app user
• Change to the node-red directory
• Run npm install
• Run npm run build

Updating node-red¶

• Go to the git repository checkout
• Git pull the latest code
• Run npm install
• Run npm run build
• Restart the app