Glossary
- Component: individual, pluggable and reusable piece of software. In this case a NoFlo-compatible CommonJS Module
- Component Library: an NPM module providing a set of components for a particular domain (for example, noflo-filesystem for file operations components)
- Graph: the control logic of a FBP application, can be either in programmatical or file format
- Inport: inbound port of a component
- Network: collection of processes connected by sockets. A running version of a graph
- Outport: outbound port of a component
- Process: an instance of a component that is running as part of a graph (also known as Node in non-live graphs)
- Runtime: an environment capable of running flow-based programs. For example NoFlo or JavaFBP
- Connection: connection between an outport of a Process, and inport of another Process (also known as Edge in non-live graphs)
- Initial Information Packet (IIP): predefined data packet sent to a defined inport of a Process
- Information Packet (IP): Packets of information with either a type of
data,openBracket, orcloseBracket.
See also the Flow-Based Programming Glossary.