node-red-contrib-short-circuit 0.2.0

A Node-RED editor plugin that replaces long wires with clickable short-circuit endpoints.

npm install node-red-contrib-short-circuit

An Node-RED editor plugin that replaces long wires with short, interactive endpoints to reduce clutter in large flows.

Behaviour

When the direct distance between a wire's two endpoints exceeds the configured threshold:

• The normal wire is hidden
• A short stub and endpoints are shown at both connected nodes

• Hovering an endpoint shows Node-RED's native ghost-link preview (the inter-link-node) with the node name at the other end

• Clicking the ghosted preview pans to and highlights that node
• Clicking the circular endpoint reveals the true wire

• Selecting either connected node reveals all shortened wires attached to that node

Distance configuration

The distance is configured in a file in your node-red directory after installing:

.nmode-red/short-circuit.json

{
    "maxDistance": 1000
}

After editing the JSON file, refresh the Node-RED editor. The runtime reads the file again whenever the editor loads, so a Node-RED restart is not required.

If the file contains invalid JSON or an invalid distance, the plugin uses the default value of 1000 and writes a warning to the Node-RED log.

Compatibility

• Node-RED 4.0 or newer
• Node.js 18 or newer

This plugin also works great with the quick-link plugin: node-red-contrib-quick-link

License

MIT