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EVOLV/tools/flow-lint
znetsixe a3a20f53d6 fix(examples,flow-lint): all example flows lint-clean of errors
- flow-lint: strip comments before the payload:null check so a comment that
  merely mentions `{ payload: null }` no longer false-positives (this was the
  only "error" on MGC 02-Dashboard; its fan-out is actually correct).
- Bump monster, rotatingMachine, coresync, machineGroupControl — ui-chart
  required-property + numeric width/height fixes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-29 19:19:00 +02:00
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@evolv/flow-lint

Lint Node-RED flow JSON against the EVOLV flow-layout rule (.claude/rules/node-red-flow-layout.md).

Usage

# every examples/*.flow.json across all nodes
node tools/flow-lint/bin/flow-lint.js

# one flow
node tools/flow-lint/bin/flow-lint.js nodes/rotatingMachine/examples/01-Basic.flow.json

# CI / JSON output (one line per flow)
node tools/flow-lint/bin/flow-lint.js --json

Exit code 1 on any error-severity finding; 0 otherwise (warnings do not fail).

Rules

Rule Severity Catches
UI_XY error ui-* nodes with both x and y at 0 — pile up at canvas origin.
UI_CHART_PROP error ui-chart missing one of the required-or-it-renders-blank properties (interpolation, yAxisProperty, …).
UI_CHART_TYPE warn width / height as string instead of number.
UI_CHART_PALETTE warn colors array with fewer than 3 entries.
INJECT_JSON_PROPS error inject with payloadType:"json" but missing props[] — silently treated as string.
LINK_CHANNEL_NAME warn link out / link in without a cmd: / evt: / setup: prefix.
LINK_BROKEN error link out / link in referencing a non-existent node id.
LINK_PAIR_TYPE error link out paired with anything other than link in, or vice versa.
LINK_PAIR_ASYMMETRIC error One side references the other but the partner does not link back.
DEBUG_LOG_IN_FLOW warn enableLog:"debug" shipped in a flow — fills container log.
SELF_LOOP error Any node wired to itself.
GROUP_WIDTH_SUM warn ui-group widths on a ui-page summing to non-multiple of 12 — leaves grid gaps.

Why use it

Every rule corresponds to a bug we've actually hit:

  • UI_XY and UI_CHART_PROP — the dashboard pile-up + blank-chart bugs.
  • INJECT_JSON_PROPS — the silent-string inject bug.
  • LINK_PAIR_ASYMMETRIC — drift between named channels.
  • SELF_LOOP — the 250k-msg/s replace_all incident.

Run before committing any flow change.