Clusterio allows factorio mods to communicate outside the game. This is the client side mod. To work, it also requires a server side mod located at https://github.com/Danielv123/factorioClusterio . It also has the full readme, so head over there.
Another practical side project is the clusterio client, which is a standalone app that makes it easier to connect to clusterio servers. Its still very much WIP at the point of writing and not really recommended.
https://github.com/Danielv123/factorioClusterioClient
In config/buildinfo.json change the value of output_directory to point to the /mods folder of the Factorio installation you wish to target.
In Powershell, run build.ps1. This will clean out the old mod folder and copy the necessary files to a new mod folder in your specefied factorio installation. It takes care of giving it the proper version suffix to match the info.json.
In Powershell reun deplpy.ps1 -Tag [Tag Name]. This will checkout the specified Tag (if it exists) and create a zip package ready to drop into a mods folder. The tag name is identical to the version number built.
Build setup lifted from https://github.com/anythingapplied/WhistleStop