Design Principles

• Bridge the gap between Node-RED's Dashboard on the one hand and uibuilder on the other.

  Dashboard makes it very easy to get started but very hard once a certain level of complexity is realised. uibuilder makes it easy to build anything but you need some web coding skills to make anything happen.

• Use uibuilder to do the heavy lifting

  Benefit from the development and improvements going in to uibuilder which is already powerful and stable.

• Provide components and matching nodes to make it easier to define custom interfaces

  Leveraging VueJS's component capabilities for the templates and Node-RED's messaging capabilities for the interface.

• Retain the flexibility of uibuilder

• Clearly define data schema's for each component

• Differentiate between components and component instances.

  A component is a template, a component instance is the realisation of a component (via a node) displayed on a uibuilder endpoint.