Simple uibuilder flow (Quote of the Day)
This simple flow will deliver a random quote of the day to a web URL using uibuilder.
All of the front-end html, javascript and css is included in the flow so simply add the flow and edit the front-end code using uibuilder's built-in editor.
See if you can work out how to use the control outputs (output port #2 on the uibuilder node) to trigger a new quote when you reload the page. (Hint: See the GitHub page for this example as it has another flow attached).
The real purpose of this flow is to help you learn a little bit about VueJS which is the default front-end framework provided with uibuilder v2 and v3.
The front-end code is extremely simple so do take a look and see how it works.
Many thanks to bakman2 for the inspiration.
I will include this flow in the uibuilder examples in a future release.
There are many more examples for uibuilder on the WIKI, please check them out.
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