Roadmap

[reconbot]

I'd like to use this issue to discuss breaking changes to the SerialPort library. 2.0.7 has changed a lot of the internals but left the api largely intact. I'd like to make some goals and address specific api changes.

Internals and APi Changes

• Cleanup flow control flags Cleanup flow control options during port construction #819
• Throw errors during construction instead of doing them in a zalgo infested callback Throw argument errors during construction instead of passing them in a callback #820
• Stop removing registered event handlers ever Stop removing all event listeners on close and disconnect #764
• Move the openImmediately argument to options Move the openImmediately flag to the port options. #809,
• Explore a Streams interface either as a primary or additional interface Conform to a Stream Interface #832
• Cleanup the bindings layer Cleanup the bindings layer #738
• Support chrome.serialport Support chrome.serialport #739
• Fix the disconnect behavior Disconnect is poorly defined and doesn't always work #702
• Explore the whatwg serial api
• Reconnect options
• Reading RTS and CTS or having events Feature requests: DCD & DSR events, DTR toggle #291
• Your hopes and dreams here

[reconbot]

My current plans involve a 3.0 release that removes the close and disconnect removeAllListeners() calls. These are basically bugs imho, but they are major api changes so 3.0.0. Most everyone will be able to update to 3.0 without any major code changes.

A 4.0 release will take a bit longer and need some discussion. I want to clean up options, and construor apis (eg throw immediatly on config issues, ensure update does the right thing everywhere. And lastly kill the factory. This will also make it a lot easier to have a single disconnect path for windows and everyone else, and isolate the pause/resume functions to the bindings.

[reconbot]

I put together a shortlist for 4.0

[reconbot]

I have a few links to serialport like interfaces that could be potential bindings layers.

• https://github.com/garrows/browser-serialport (chrome apps)
• Monteslu's collection of serialport like objects https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=user%3Amonteslu+-serial&type=Repositories&ref=searchresults

[reconbot]

Most of these are completed. Gonna close as 5.0 is close to release.