Using Raspberry Pi3’s serialport via an Electron app

I hit my head two times on this, getting serialdata via an Electron app, time to put the taken steps on paper.

Demo project

I found this demo project and used it aswell: https://github.com/johnny-five-io/electron-serialport

I implemented some changes to push the data to a table.
The project code can be found on my github pagehttps://github.com/timdows/webpages/tree/master/ElectronSerial

Implementing serialport in an existing project

The installation is as easy as running the install command

[code]npm install –save-dev serialport[/code]

When trying to run electron I got:

According to the manual on github, it is needed to use electron-rebuild in order to solve this.

Installing electron-rebuild

[code]npm install –save-dev electron-rebuild[/code]

Change package.json under the scripts section

[code]’install’: ‘electron-rebuild'[/code]

run npm install, it will rebuild the serialport for us (takes a while on the Pi3)

A couple of weeks later I got this error ‘compiled against a different Node.js version’

Uncaught Error: The module 'xxx/serialport/build/Release/serialport.node' was compiled against a different Node.js version using

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42616008/node-module-version-conflict-when-installing-modules-for-electron

https://www.npmjs.com/package/serialport#illegal-instruction

npm cache clear
rm -rf node_modules
reboot
npm install