Blog: Building Your Node-RED Industrial MCP Server with FlowFuse

[sumitshinde-84]

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• Suitable unit/system level tests have been added and they pass
• Documentation has been updated
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[Steve-Mcl]

Overall good but some things need a bit touch up.

Other notes:

• No mention of built in examples (accessible via import -> examples)
• Perhaps link to the recent Youtube video done by @KristopherLeads?

[Steve-Mcl]

Merging as is (without tile) as per request on slack.