Why developers like n8n

What is n8n?

It is a free node based Workflow Automation Tool. Easily automate tasks accross different services. Synchronise data between different apps/databases.

n8n is a tool in the Web Service Automation category of a tech stack.

n8n is an open source tool with 40.6K GitHub stars and 5K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to n8n's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses n8n?

Companies

27 companies reportedly use n8n in their tech stacks, including Labs, n8n, and radrat.

Labs

n8n

radrat

PC Pulse

Fielda

mediabox-lv

GigSmart

Novo

Nova Benefits

Developers

129 developers on StackShare have stated that they use n8n.

Tyjak tools

BlankPage.io

My Stack

n8n Integrations

GitHub, MySQL, Slack, MongoDB, and Google Drive are some of the popular tools that integrate with n8n. Here's a list of all 51 tools that integrate with n8n.

GitHub

MySQL

Slack

MongoDB

Google Drive

WordPress

GitLab

Jira

Redis

Pros of n8n

Free

Easily extendable

Self-hostable

Easy to use

Easily exteandable

Powerful

Decisions about n8n

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose n8n in their tech stack.

johnsonblue75

Jun 10, 2023 | 6 upvotes · 226.4K views

Needs advice

Contentful

Directus

and

Strapi

Hi, I went through a comprehensive analysis - of headless/api content management systems - essentially to store content "bits" and publish them where needed (website, 3rd party sites, social media, etc.). I had considered many other solutions but ultimately chose Directus. I believe that was a good choice.

I had strongly considered Contentful, Strapi, Sanity, and hygraph. Hygraph came in #2 and contentful #3.

Ultimately I liked directus for:

(1) time in business

(2) open source

(3) integration with n8n and Pipedream

(4) pricing

(5) extensibility

Thoughts? Was this a good choice? We have many WordPress sites we're not (at least now) looking to replace with Directus, but instead to push to.

I'd love some feedback.

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n8n's Features

Free / Open Source
Create own nodes to integrate third-party services or in-house tools
Decide who gets access and where your data is stored
Automate daily tasks
React to events
Easily extendable

n8n Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to n8n?

Airflow

Use Airflow to author workflows as directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) of tasks. The Airflow scheduler executes your tasks on an array of workers while following the specified dependencies. Rich command lines utilities makes performing complex surgeries on DAGs a snap. The rich user interface makes it easy to visualize pipelines running in production, monitor progress and troubleshoot issues when needed.

Zapier

Zapier is for busy people who know their time is better spent selling, marketing, or coding. Instead of wasting valuable time coming up with complicated systems - you can use Zapier to automate the web services you and your team are already using on a daily basis.

Huginn

It is a system for building agents that perform automated tasks for you online. They can read the web, watch for events, and take actions on your behalf. It's Agents create and consume events, propagating them along a directed graph. Think of it as a hackable version of IFTTT or Zapier on your own server. You always know who has your data.

JavaScript

JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.

Git

Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.

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