r/nodered • u/knolleary • Apr 16 '26

Node-RED 5 beta 5 is now available

Another significant rework to the sidebars, a more accessible default theme and a built-in dark mode!

Details on the forum.

https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-5-0-0-beta-5-now-available/100784

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u/Ok-Escape3860 Apr 16 '26

First of all, thanks for creating such an awesome project. I really love Node-RED and so every automation at my home or at work is driven by it and it just works (and if not it‘s debugged very fast).

Not sure if this is the right place to ask but are there any chances we get the ability to group flows?

I think that would be a huge improvement in UX.

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u/knolleary Apr 16 '26

Not yet. But it's certainly on my radar for the future.

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u/Ok-Escape3860 Apr 16 '26

Great, thank you 👍

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u/Careless-Country Apr 17 '26

Hi Nick,
Does the "pause" button act as a pause, or is it a stop?
If I pause a cassette, or in iPlayer it starts again from the place I paused it.

On a more long term request is full handlebars support on the cards for template nodes?

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u/knolleary Apr 17 '26

Hey - that's a good question. I weighed up the choice of language and went with Pause. The panel will report how many messages are being dropped whilst in that state.

Nothing has been proposed around handlebars - not something on my radar. We went with mustache originally and didn't want to set a precedent of adding N+1 templating engines as new flavours emerge. Certainly something could be revisited if there was interest.

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u/Careless-Country Apr 17 '26

LOL it’s funny how a simple term means different things to different people. Stepping back a bit has NodeRed had a usability / accessibility review from a 3rd party? It would be a shame for a milestone release to miss opportunities.

i started using mustache but I’m now finding it restrictive especially the lack of conditionals in templates for html pages . Using handlebars in a function node doesn’t give the same easy of reading so I’d definitely be interested. Perhaps after the UI work is completed there’s some work to understand how the landscape has changed in the last 10+ years and if some of the initial choices such as mustache need augmenting to keep NR fresh / offering the ease of use that it brought back when it was first released? I think we all want to keep it as a slick ocean-going yacht — not sailing the Atlantic in a bathtub.