Comment by Arch-TK

Firstly, thanks for the link and information on more of the roots of this kind of programming, I couldn't find this when I looked.

Regarding NodeRED. I don't dispute that it's stable, but my experience actually running any nodejs based software is that it's all heavily designed for running out of a container and a massive PITA to maintain otherwise. I already have enough hassle running zigbee2mqtt on my FreeBSD home server which wouldn't work in a linux jail because I couldn't figure out how to expose the zigbee dongle to it.

Secondly, the reason I wanted to run one of these was not because I wanted to use it to automate my house, but instead because I wanted to understand how it works so I could replicate it in my own weird way.