[Vuejs]-Serial communication with arduino from electron-vue

If you were on windows this is how you would solve it

Install windows build tools in your computer by running this in your powershell with administrator access

 npm install --global --production windows-build-tools 

or npm –add-python-to-path=’true’ –debug install –global windows-build-tools

 setx PYTHON "%USERPROFILE%\.windows-build-tools/python27/python.exe"

 set PYTHON

set PYTHON helps you check if its set up correctly.

This is not enough install electron rebuild globally in your project files

 npm install -g electron-prebuilt  
 npm install --save serialport

We have to rebuild serialport to work with electron. To do this, we need to >install electron-rebuild:

 npm install --save-dev electron-rebuild  

The last step is to run electron-rebuild, once again, just in the root >directory of the app:

 ./node_modules/.bin/electron-rebuild -$(electron -v)

import and use in your electron-vue project

<script>     
  const sp = require('serialport')
  export default {
    name: 'landing-page',
    methods: {},
    created () {
      sp.list(function (error, ports) {
        if (error) {
          console.log(error)
        } else {
          console.log(ports)
        }
      })
    }
  }
</script>