# Community News May 2023

> A roundup of May 2023 news from the FlowFuse and Node-RED communities, covering platform updates and community highlights.

Welcome to the FlowFuse newsletter for May 2023, a monthly roundup of what’s been happening with both FlowFuse and the wider Node-RED community.

## Upcoming events

### Ask Me Anything about Debugging Node-RED

Our monthly Node-RED AMA session will have a special focus on debugging. Nick and Rob will lead us through some useful debug workflows to show how they approach debugging Node-RED applications. During the live coding sessions there will be opportunities for attendees to ask questions in real-time. Join us to learn from the experts on the tips and tricks for debugging Node-RED flows.

### Getting Started with Node-RED Dashboard

How can you use Node-RED to create dashboards and interactive graphs of your data? The answer is the Node-RED Dashboard node, the most popular node in the Node-RED community. In this webinar, Rob Marcer will take you through the steps of how to get started with the Node-RED Dashboard. [Register today](/webinars/2023/getting-started-nodered-dashboard/).

## From our Blog

[Chat GPT in Node-RED Function Nodes](/blog/2023/05/chatgpt-nodered-fcn-node/) - Use Chat GPT to write Node-RED functions directly in the Node-RED interface.

[Securing Node-RED](/blog/2023/04/securing-node-red-in-production/) - A look at how you can secure Node-RED deployments.

[Node-RED Community Health](/blog/2023/04/nodered-community-health/) - Some key community metrics for the Node-RED community.

[FlowFuse's visit to Hannover Messe 2023](/blog/2023/04/hannover-messe/) - Our CEO and Product Manager visited Hannover Messe in Germany; one of the largest trade shows for manufacturing.

[FlowFuse 1.6 Now Available](/blog/2023/04/flowforge-1-6-released/) - FlowFuse 1.6 included support for multi-instance Node-RED within a single application as well as support for logging from remote devices.

[Node-RED Tips - Subflows, Link Nodes, and the Range Node](/blog/2023/04/3-quick-node-red-tips-6/)

## From the Community

Jsonata is a very useful and often underutilised tool built into Node-RED. Steve over at [Steve's Node-RED Guide](https://stevesnoderedguide.com) has published a great beginners guide. If you are new to Jsonata and want to learn more we recommend you [take a look](https://stevesnoderedguide.com/node-red-and-jsonata-for-beginners).

### Custom Node Spotlight - node-red-contrib-queue-gate

[Queue Gate](https://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red-contrib-queue-gate) is a handy custom node which allows you to control the flow of messages. You might wish to queue up all the messages in a flow and then release them all, once an hour. Maybe you want to release just one message at a time and wait until the prior message completed a section of your flow. Queue Gate makes message queuing really easy without the need to use an external queue solution.

## Join Our Team

FlowFuse is expanding our team. Check out the current openings:

- **Developer Advocate - Manufacturing & Industrial Automation**
- **Sales Representative**