---
title: "Flowise"
type: "tool"
slug: "flowiseai-flowise"
canonical_url: "https://www.graphcanon.com/tools/flowiseai-flowise"
github_url: "https://github.com/FlowiseAI/Flowise"
homepage_url: "https://flowiseai.com"
stars: 54383
forks: 24663
primary_language: "TypeScript"
license: "Other"
categories: ["ai-agents", "developer-tools"]
tags: ["no-code", "javascript", "large-language-models", "agentic-ai", "langchain", "multiagent-systems", "chatbot", "low-code"]
updated_at: "2026-07-07T18:17:43.023197+00:00"
---

# Flowise

> Build AI Agents, Visually

Flowise is a TypeScript-based platform for creating and visualizing AI agents with low-code/no-code approaches.

## Facts

- Repository: https://github.com/FlowiseAI/Flowise
- Homepage: https://flowiseai.com
- Stars: 54,383 · Forks: 24,663 · Open issues: 979 · Watchers: 361
- Primary language: TypeScript
- License: Other
- Last pushed: 2026-07-06T04:30:06+00:00

## Categories

- [AI Agents](/categories/ai-agents.md)
- [Developer Tools](/categories/developer-tools.md)

## Tags

no-code, javascript, large language models, agentic-ai, langchain, multiagent-systems, chatbot, low-code

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## README (excerpt)

```text
<p align="center">
<img src="https://github.com/FlowiseAI/Flowise/blob/main/images/flowise_white.svg#gh-light-mode-only">
<img src="https://github.com/FlowiseAI/Flowise/blob/main/images/flowise_dark.svg#gh-dark-mode-only">
</p>

<div align="center">







English | [繁體中文](./i18n/README-TW.md) | [简体中文](./i18n/README-ZH.md) | [日本語](./i18n/README-JA.md) | [한국어](./i18n/README-KR.md)

</div>

<h3>Build AI Agents, Visually</h3>
<a href="https://github.com/FlowiseAI/Flowise">
<img width="100%" src="https://github.com/FlowiseAI/Flowise/blob/main/images/flowise_agentflow.gif?raw=true"></a>

## 📚 Table of Contents

-   [⚡ Quick Start](#-quick-start)
-   [🐳 Docker](#-docker)
-   [👨‍💻 Developers](#-developers)
-   [🌱 Env Variables](#-env-variables)
-   [📖 Documentation](#-documentation)
-   [🌐 Self Host](#-self-host)
-   [☁️ Flowise Cloud](#️-flowise-cloud)
-   [🙋 Support](#-support)
-   [🙌 Contributing](#-contributing)
-   [📄 License](#-license)

## ⚡Quick Start

Download and Install [NodeJS](https://nodejs.org/en/download) >= 20.0.0

1. Install Flowise
    ```bash
    npm install -g flowise
    ```
2. Start Flowise

    ```bash
    npx flowise start
    ```

3. Open [http://localhost:3000](http://localhost:3000)

## 🐳 Docker

### Docker Compose

1. Clone the Flowise project
2. Go to `docker` folder at the root of the project
3. Copy `.env.example` file, paste it into the same location, and rename to `.env` file
4. `docker compose up -d`
5. Open [http://localhost:3000](http://localhost:3000)
6. You can bring the containers down by `docker compose stop`

### Docker Image

1. Build the image locally:

    ```bash
    docker build --no-cache -t flowise .
    ```

2. Run image:

    ```bash
    docker run -d --name flowise -p 3000:3000 flowise
    ```

3. Stop image:

    ```bash
    docker stop flowise
    ```

## 👨‍💻 Developers

Flowise has 3 different modules in a single mono repository.

-   `server`: Node backend to serve API logics
-   `ui`: React frontend
-   `components`: Third-party nodes integrations
-   `api-documentation`: Auto-generated swagger-ui API docs from express

### Prerequisite

-   Install [PNPM](https://pnpm.io/installation)
    ```bash
    npm i -g pnpm
    ```

### Setup

1.  Clone the repository:

    ```bash
    git clone https://github.com/FlowiseAI/Flowise.git
    ```

2.  Go into repository folder:

    ```bash
    cd Flowise
    ```

3.  Install all dependencies of all modules:

    ```bash
    pnpm install
    ```

4.  Build all the code:

    ```bash
    pnpm build
    ```

    <details>
    <summary>Exit code 134 (JavaScript heap out of memory)</summary>  
    If you get this error when running the above `build` script, try increasing the Node.js heap size and run the script again:

    ```bash
    # macOS / Linux / Git Bash
    export NODE_OPTIONS="--max-old-space-size=4096"

    # Windows PowerShell
    $env:NODE_OPTIONS="--max-old-space-size=4096"

    # Windows CMD
    set NODE_OPTIONS=--max-old-space-size=4096
    ```

    Then run:

    ```bash
    pnpm build
    ```

    </details>

5.  Start the app:

    ```bash
    pnpm start
    ```

    You can now access the app on [http://localhost:3000](http://localhost:3000)

6.  For development build:

    -   Create `.env` file and specify the `VITE_PORT` (refer to `.env.example`) in `packages/ui`
    -   Create `.env` file and specify the `PORT` (refer to `.env.example`) in `packages/server`
    -   Run:

        ```bash
        pnpm dev
        ```

    Any code changes will reload the app automatically on [http://localhost:8080](http://localhost:8080)

## 🌱 Env Variables

Flowise supports different environment variables to configure your instance. You can specify the following variables in the `.env` file inside `packages/server` folder. Read [more](https://github.com/FlowiseAI/Flowise/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#-env-variables)

## 📖 Documentation

You can view the Flowise Docs [here](https://docs.flowiseai.com/)

## 🌐 Self Host

Deploy
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**Machine-readable endpoints**

- JSON: [`/api/graphcanon/tools/flowiseai-flowise`](/api/graphcanon/tools/flowiseai-flowise)
- LLM index: [/llms.txt](/llms.txt)
- Full corpus: [/llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt)

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