No, that much talent I don't have :) Node-RED has a create frontend that just works and the APIs to the server are clearly defined. So it's relatively easy to

No, that much talent I don't have :) Node-RED has a create frontend that just works and the APIs to the server are clearly defined. So it's relatively easy to swap out the backend - that's what I did. Erlang has many features that make flow based programming (as implemented by Node-RED) simpler - e.g., message passing builtin and cheap processes and cheap concurrency.