APIJSON
🏆 实时 零代码、全功能、强安全 ORM 库 🚀 后端接口和文档零代码，前端(客户端) 定制返回 JSON 的数据和结构 🏆 Real-Time coding-free, powerful and secure ORM 🚀 providing APIs and Docs without coding by Backend, and the returned JSON of API can be customized by Frontend(Client) users (by Tencent)
Node RED
Low-code programming for event-driven applications (by node-red)
| APIJSON | Node RED | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 211 | |
| 18,137 | 21,786 | |
| 0.7% | 1.6% | |
| 9.0 | 9.5 | |
| 5 days ago | 4 days ago | |
| Java | JavaScript | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | Apache License 2.0 |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
APIJSON
Posts with mentions or reviews of APIJSON.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-07-18.
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Top 15 Open-Source Low-Code Projects with the Most GitHub Stars
GitHub https://github.com/Tencent/APIJSON GitHub Stars 16.9k Most Recent Update on GitHub 2 days ago Open Source License Apache 2.0 Number of Active Contributors This Year 6 Acceptance of External PRs Yes Official Website http://apijson.cn/ Documentation https://apijsondocs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Node RED
Posts with mentions or reviews of Node RED.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-07-17.
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N8n vs. node-red, which to use for AI workloads
Also very important for a lot of use-cases: Node-RED is open source, but n8n is not.
https://github.com/node-red/node-red/blob/master/LICENSE
https://docs.n8n.io/sustainable-use-license/
We previously looked into integrating n8n but they wanted $50k for a commercial license, which didn’t make sense for us.
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My personal favorite MCP server which has became part of my life
GitHub: github.com/node-red/node-red
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Erlang-Red: Node-Red with an Erlang Back End
Ahh, you didn't create Node-RED editor. That's an external project.
https://nodered.org/
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Hardware Metrics Collection with IOT Devices
Node Red is a unique application that provides a graphical programming environment. With this, you can define input to output transformation with any level of complexity, including reading, parsing, formatting, and output with optional conditionals. For example, here is a flow definition that parses MQTT JSON messages that communicate if a node is alive, and then store this information in InfluxDB:
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Home Assistant and ESP Home: How to use MQTT Integration for Dynamic Device Configuration
For a simple test, I created this Node Red flow that listens to homeassistant/status messages. HA itself will send messages that communicate when its started or when it is about to shutdown. These messages, and a custom message I send from within HA, could be seen:
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Show HN: Mashups – Resurrecting Yahoo Pipes, my side project
Also check out https://nodered.org/ and https://github.com/huginn/huginn if you're interested in free and open-source software you can run yourself.
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Data Visualization on the e-RT3 using Node-RED, InfluxDB Cloud, and Grafana
Node-RED (e-RT3) Flow-based, low code development tool
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Top 15 Open-Source Low-Code Projects with the Most GitHub Stars
GitHub https://github.com/node-red/node-red GitHub Stars 19.1k Most Recent Update on GitHub 2 weeks ago Open Source License Apache 2.0 Number of Active Contributors This Year 13 Acceptance of External PRs Yes Official Website https://nodered.org/ Documentation https://nodered.org/docs/
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Major updates from the open source community: Release Radar · June 2024
Want a low code application for event-driven applications? Then Node-RED is your go to. The new update brings a breaking change, with Node-RED now requiring Node 18.x or later. The team have added new features and updated dependencies to the editor, and there are lots of fixes within the editor. Check out the release notes for all the details.
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Low-code drag-and-drop tool for building RESTful APIs with in minutes.
During a college project in the field of IoT, I came across a simple and powerful solution for wiring together hardware devices called NODE-RED developed originally by IBM. The project was very simple as it only involved controlling electrical appliances and sensing room temperature using a temperature sensor. The whole hardware system was connected to the network using the MQTT Protocol, and using Node-Red, it was just a few minutes of work to connect all sensors and respond accordingly.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing APIJSON and Node RED you can also consider the following projects:
mybatis-plus - An powerful enhanced toolkit of MyBatis for simplify development
Home Assistant - :house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.
jnosql - Eclipse JNoSQL is a framework which has the goal to help Java developers to create Jakarta EE applications with NoSQL.
n8n - Fair-code workflow automation platform with native AI capabilities. Combine visual building with custom code, self-host or cloud, 400+ integrations.
morphia - MongoDB object-document mapper in Java based on https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-java-driver
Huginn - Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf. Your agents are standing by!