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Flowise

What is Flowise?​

Flowise is a visual, low-code builder for LLM apps and AI agents. Prototype agent and RAG flows by dragging nodes together in its editor, then call the resulting flow from Laravel over HTTP.

Start Flowise​

docker compose up -d flowise

Stop Flowise​

docker compose stop flowise

This stops the container without deleting your flows (kept in the flowise Docker volume). To remove the container: docker compose rm -f flowise.

Configuration​

All settings live in flowise/defaults.env and can be overridden by adding the same line to your own .env:

VariableDefaultWhat it does
FLOWISE_VERSIONlatestImage tag from the flowiseai/flowise Docker Hub image.
FLOWISE_HOST_PORT3020Host-side port the Flowise builder/API is published on (container port 3000).

Flows, credentials, and chat history persist in the flowise volume at /root/.flowise across restarts.

Connect​

Open the builder at http://localhost:3020. Health check: /api/v1/ping returns pong. Once you've built a flow, call it from your app via its prediction API endpoint (shown in the Flowise UI for that flow); from inside another container that's reachable at http://flowise:3000.

Common issues​

  • Builder loads but a flow's API calls fail. Confirm the flow is saved and, if it uses an external provider (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.), that the corresponding credentials are configured in Flowise's credential store, not just typed into a node.
  • Can't reach the API from your Laravel app. From inside another container, use http://flowise:3000, not localhost:3020, the host port only applies from outside Docker.
  • Port already in use on your host. Change FLOWISE_HOST_PORT in .env and restart: docker compose up -d flowise.
  • Flows disappeared after recreating the container. Data lives in the flowise named volume; if you ran docker compose down -v (which removes volumes) rather than docker compose down, that data is gone.

Want a more general-purpose automation/workflow tool alongside AI nodes? See n8n. New to Laradock? Start with Getting Started.