serialport/node-serialport

Access serial ports with JavaScript. Linux, OSX and Windows. Welcome your robotic JavaScript overlords. Better yet, program them!

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Node Serialport

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Access serial ports with JavaScript. Linux, OSX and Windows. Welcome your robotic JavaScript overlords. Better yet, program them!

Go to https://serialport.io/ to learn more, find guides and api documentation.

Developing

Developing node serialport projects

  1. Clone this repo git clone git@github.com:serialport/node-serialport.git
  2. Run npm install to setup local package dependencies (run this any time you depend on a package local to this repo)
  3. Run npm test to ensure everything is working properly
  4. Add dev dependencies to the root package.json and package dependencies to the package's one.

Developing Docs

See https://github.com/serialport/website

License

SerialPort packages are all MIT licensed and all it's dependencies are MIT licensed.

Code of Conduct

SerialPort follows the Nodebots Code of Conduct. While the code is MIT licensed participation in the community has some rules to make this a good place to work and learn.

TLDR

  • Be respectful.
  • Abusive behavior is never tolerated.
  • Data published to NodeBots is hosted at the discretion of the service administrators, and may be removed.
  • Don't build evil robots.
  • Violations of this code may result in swift and permanent expulsion from the NodeBots community.

Governance and Community

SerialPort is currently employees a governance with a group of maintainers, committers and contributors, all fixing bugs and adding features and improving documentation. You need not apply to work on SerialPort, all are welcome to join, build, and maintain this project.

  • A Contributor is any individual creating or commenting on an issue or pull request. By participating, this is you.
  • Committers are contributors who have been given write access to the repository. They can review and merge pull requests.
  • Maintainers are committers representing the required technical expertise to resolve rare disputes.

If you have a PR that improves the project people in any or all of the above people will help you land it.

Maintainers

Contributors

This project exists thanks to all the people who contribute. [Contribute].

Backers

Thank you to all our backers! 🙏 [Become a backer]

Sponsors

Support this project by becoming a sponsor. Your logo will show up here with a link to your website. [Become a sponsor]

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serial-ports

Project health

Overall

5.6/10

Maintained

0/10

Code review

1/10
OpenSSF Scorecard

Latest release

13.0.0 · Dec 24, 2024

Releases this year

0

Significant stargazers

(top 24 of 33)

Tim Düsterhus

223 followers · starred Jul 2013

shinnn

408 followers · starred May 2013

Wes Bos

36,046 followers · starred Sep 2010

Graeme Yeates

311 followers · starred Jul 2014

serialport/node-serialport

Access serial ports with JavaScript. Linux, OSX and Windows. Welcome your robotic JavaScript overlords. Better yet, program them!

TypeScript

5,994

1,863 commits

updated Jan 17, 2026

See the code

README

Node Serialport

Backers on Open Collective Sponsors on Open Collective lerna codecov Test / Lint

Access serial ports with JavaScript. Linux, OSX and Windows. Welcome your robotic JavaScript overlords. Better yet, program them!

Go to https://serialport.io/ to learn more, find guides and api documentation.

Developing

Developing node serialport projects

  1. Clone this repo git clone git@github.com:serialport/node-serialport.git
  2. Run npm install to setup local package dependencies (run this any time you depend on a package local to this repo)
  3. Run npm test to ensure everything is working properly
  4. Add dev dependencies to the root package.json and package dependencies to the package's one.

Developing Docs

See https://github.com/serialport/website

License

SerialPort packages are all MIT licensed and all it's dependencies are MIT licensed.

Code of Conduct

SerialPort follows the Nodebots Code of Conduct. While the code is MIT licensed participation in the community has some rules to make this a good place to work and learn.

TLDR

  • Be respectful.
  • Abusive behavior is never tolerated.
  • Data published to NodeBots is hosted at the discretion of the service administrators, and may be removed.
  • Don't build evil robots.
  • Violations of this code may result in swift and permanent expulsion from the NodeBots community.

Governance and Community

SerialPort is currently employees a governance with a group of maintainers, committers and contributors, all fixing bugs and adding features and improving documentation. You need not apply to work on SerialPort, all are welcome to join, build, and maintain this project.

  • A Contributor is any individual creating or commenting on an issue or pull request. By participating, this is you.
  • Committers are contributors who have been given write access to the repository. They can review and merge pull requests.
  • Maintainers are committers representing the required technical expertise to resolve rare disputes.

If you have a PR that improves the project people in any or all of the above people will help you land it.

Maintainers

Contributors

This project exists thanks to all the people who contribute. [Contribute].

Backers

Thank you to all our backers! 🙏 [Become a backer]

Sponsors

Support this project by becoming a sponsor. Your logo will show up here with a link to your website. [Become a sponsor]

electron
hardware
iot
javascript
nodebots
nodejs
node-serialport
promise
robot
serial
serialport
serial-ports

Project health

Overall

5.6/10

Maintained

0/10

Code review

1/10
OpenSSF Scorecard

Latest release

13.0.0 · Dec 24, 2024

Releases this year

0

Significant stargazers

(top 24 of 33)

Tim Düsterhus

223 followers · starred Jul 2013

shinnn

408 followers · starred May 2013

Wes Bos

36,046 followers · starred Sep 2010

Graeme Yeates

311 followers · starred Jul 2014