node-red-node-msgpack
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A <a href="http://nodered.org" target="_new">Node-RED</a> node to pack and unpack objects to msgpack format buffers.

Install
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Run the following command in your Node-RED user directory - typically `~/.node-red`

    npm install node-red-node-msgpack


Usage
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Uses the <a href="https://www.npmjs.org/package/msgpack">msgpack npm</a> to pack and unpack msg.payload objects to <a href="http://msgpack.org/">msgpack</a> format buffers.

If the input is NOT a buffer it converts it into a msgpack buffer.

If the input is a msgpack buffer it converts it back to the original type.