[jonahx]

You're not alone. Even the wikipedia page on flow-based programming doesn't help me much.

I'd love to see something like todomvc implemented with this, to give it some grounding.

[mov]

An implementation of TodoMVC is really a good idea! There is already a (re)implementation of Jekyll using NoFlo that you might find interesting: http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/noflo-jekyll/