FlowFuse Assistant just got smarter

Following on from the recent improvements we made earlier this month, we have added even more goodness to the FlowFuse Assistant:

We have:

• Added a menu for quick access to the new features
• Improved the look and feel of the Flow Explainer
• Added a codelens to assist you creating HTML, VUE, Vuetify & CSS in FlowFuse Node-RED Dashboard templates

And there more to come in the next week - stay tuned!

#  New Menu

Screenshot of the new Assistant Menu

#  Flow Explainer updated look & feel

Animated GIF showing the Flow Explainer Updated Layout

#  New Codelens for building ui-templates

Animated GIF showing the Assistant building HTML & VUE template code

Animated GIF showing the Assistant building CSS styles

#  Updating the Assistant

If you are running Node-RED v4.x, head over to the Palette Manager, update the plugin and restart your instance.

Screenshot of Updating the Assistant for a Node-RED 4 instance

If you are still running Node-RED v3.x we strogly recommend you update your stack to use Node-RED v4.x but you can still manually update the plugin by adding @flowfuse/nr-assistant to the instance settings then restart it.

Screenshot of Updating Assistant for a Node-RED 3 instance