Add new node library to the project

Questions
1

Hi, I want to use a node library in the custom node, can anyone help me setting up this node library in n8n project.

2

How are you running n8n? If for example in Docker that will simply not be possible.

3

I am running it in dev mode, and new node is present in .n8n/custom.

4

Ok, in that case, you have a few different choices:

  1. npm install the module in packages/cli and then allow the module like described here:
    Introduction | Docs
  2. Create your own n8n-node-module like described here:
    Introduction | Docs
  3. Create a new node in the existing n8n-nodes-base module like described here: n8n/CONTRIBUTING.md at master · n8n-io/n8n · GitHub
5

You should definitly check out 2., we switched to that approach recently and not looking back

1 Like