Bhavesh Gohel bhaveshgohel

Building node-serialport for Electron on Windows

These instruction are for Windows, on my Linux installation(Fedora 21) everything works by just installing serialport with npm (I don't know why!).

These are the steps I did to build node serialport for electron (formerly atom-shell) for Windows. I am completely certain there is a better way to do it, but since I struggled with it for quite a while, here is a solution anyway.

You need some version of Visual studio installed, I have VS 2012 Express for Desktop.

Disclaimer: This is an unofficial post by a random person from the community. I am not an official representative of io.js. Want to ask a question? open an issue on the node-forward discussions repo

io.js - what you need to know

io is a fork of node v0.12 (the next stable version of node.js, currently unreleased)
io.js will be totally compatible with node.js
the people who created io.js are node core contributors who have different ideas on how to run the project
it is not a zero-sum game. many core contributors will help maintain both node.js and io.js

The final result: require() any module on npm in your browser console with browserify

This article is written to explain how the above gif works in the chrome (and other) browser consoles. A quick disclaimer: this whole thing is a huge hack, it shouldn't be used for anything seriously, and there are probably much better ways of accomplishing the same.

Update: There are much better ways of accomplishing the same, and the script has been updated to use a much simpler method pulling directly from browserify-cdn. See this thread for details: mathisonian/requirify#5

inspiration

Simple Parallax Scrolling Effect

Courtesy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zpfWJCdNAI

A Pen by Bhavesh Gohel on CodePen.

License.

	// From callbacks to Promises to async functions

	function callbackFunc(x, callback) {
	f1(x, (err1, result1) => {
	if (err1) {
	console.error(err1);
	callback(err1);
	return;
	}
	f2(result1, (err2, result2) => {

	//run this with 'node server.js' and then test in multiple computers using 'telnet 192.168.0.1 9000'
	// replace '192.168.0.1' with your ip.
	(function () {
	'use strict';
	let net = require('net');
	let chatServer = net.createServer(),
	clientList = []; // a list of connected clients/ machines

	chatServer.on('connection', function (client) {
	//once a client connects we add it to our clientList

	https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit
	https://github.com/atom/atom-shell
	https://github.com/adobe/brackets-shell/
	http://documentup.com/arturadib/node-qt
	http://deskshell.org/demo-docs/tutorials/start.htm
	http://www.sencha.com/blog/using-native-apis-in-sencha-desktop-packager
	http://blogs.telerik.com/kendoui/posts/12-12-04/desktop_apps_the_final_frontier_for_html5
	http://www.tidesdk.org/
	http://www.awesomium.com/
	https://developers.pokki.com/

	# Node-WebKit CheatSheet
	# Download: https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit#downloads
	# Old Versions: https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit/wiki/Downloads-of-old-versions
	# Wiki: https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit/wiki
	# How: https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit/wiki/How-node.js-is-integrated-with-chromium


	# 1. Run your application.
	# https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit/wiki/How-to-run-apps

	var net = require('net');
	var sockets = [];
	var port = 8000;
	var guestId = 0;

	var server = net.createServer(function(socket) {
	// Increment
	guestId++;

	socket.nickname = "Guest" + guestId;