Awesome Flow-Based Programming (FBP) Resources

"Official" resources

• Inventor's FBP site
• Wikipedia article

Community resources

• Google group / mailing list
• FBP wiki
• FBP Slack - (Invitation link)

Books

• Flow-Based Programming (2nd ed) - "The" Book, by FBP inventor J.P. Morrison
• Dataflow and Reactive Programming Systems - Short book comparing FBP to a few similar approaches

Lists of links

• J Paul Morrisons list of (external) links

FBP Libraries and frameworks

Graphical FBP network editors

• DrawFBP - Java based simple FBP editor created by FBP inventor
• FlowHub - Web based interface particularly for NoFlo (see below), but also supports a generic FBP network protocol
• Slang - Short for stream language, offering purely visual programming without the need of preprogrammed components

Java

• JavaFBP - By FBP Inventor
• Apache NiFi - A data processing system developed by the NSA

Javascript

• NoFlo
• JSFBP
• Node-RED

C++

• CppFBP - By FBP Inventor
• MicroFlo - FBP library with a focus on micro-controllers

Python

• Pyperator - FBP-based workflow library based on asyncio
• PaPy - "Parallel pipelines in Python"

Go

• GoFlow - Most well-known and mature Go-based FBP library
• Cascades - Language-agnostic Flow-based Programming (FBP) framework in Go
• FlowBase - A Go-based FBP micro-framework, using native channels instead of reflection
• Flowgraph - FBP framework using efficient buffered channels for data flow and back-pressure

Rust

• Fractalide

(TBC)