Package
serialport
Node.js package to access serial ports. Linux, OSX and Windows. Welcome your robotic JavaScript overlords. Better yet, program them!
Key numbers
As of 25 Sept 2026
- Weekly downloads
- 320.2k
- +171% over 12 months
- Gzip bundle size
- -
- No Bundlephobia data
- Dependencies
- 14
- Direct, from package.json
- Last release
- 1 year ago
- v13.0.0
- GitHub stars
- 6k
- 1k forks
- Open issues / PRs
- 157 / 1
- Contributors
- -
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- 41
Downloads
Last week 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-21
320,183 downloads last week, 1,217,090 in the last month. The 12-month change of +171% compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the series.
- Releases, last 12 months
- 0143 in total
- Latest version
- 13.0.0, 24 Dec 20241 year ago
- First published
- 17 Feb 2011
- Last push to GitHub
- 17 Jan 2026251 days before the snapshot
- Repository archived
- No
- Open issues
- 157
- Open pull requests
- 1
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- 41
- Dependents on npm
- -
Major versions
- v13 first release 13.0.0, 24 Dec 2024
- v12 first release 12.0.0, 29 Aug 2023
- v11 first release 11.0.0, 29 Apr 2023
- v10 first release 10.0.0, 11 Dec 2021
- v9 first release 9.0.0, 10 May 2020
- v8 first release 8.0.0, 16 May 2019
- v7 first release 7.0.1, 29 Aug 2018
- v6 first release 6.0.0, 9 Oct 2017
- v5 first release 5.0.0, 30 Jul 2017
- v4 first release 4.0.0, 2 Jul 2016
- v3 first release 3.0.0, 25 Apr 2016
- v2 first release 2.0.0, 12 Oct 2015
- v1 first release 1.0.0, 13 Jul 2012
- v0 first release 0.1.0, 17 Feb 2011
Recent releases
| Version | Published |
|---|---|
| 13.0.0 | 24 Dec 2024 |
| 12.0.0 | 29 Aug 2023 |
| 11.0.1 | 27 Jul 2023 |
| 11.0.0 | 29 Apr 2023 |
| 10.5.0 | 17 Nov 2022 |
| 10.4.0 | 4 Mar 2022 |
| 10.3.0 | 14 Feb 2022 |
| 10.2.2 | 5 Feb 2022 |
| 10.2.1 | 3 Feb 2022 |
| 10.2.0 | 3 Feb 2022 |
| 10.1.0 | 23 Jan 2022 |
| 10.0.2 | 8 Jan 2022 |
| 10.0.1 | 25 Dec 2021 |
| 10.0.0 | 11 Dec 2021 |
- Module format
- CommonJSFrom package.json type, main and exports fields
- TypeScript types
- Bundled
- Node.js engine range
- >=20.0.0
- Runtimes
- -
- Unpacked size (npm)
- 12 kB
- Dependencies (14)
debug@serialport/stream@serialport/binding-mock@serialport/bindings-cpp@serialport/parser-ready@serialport/parser-regex@serialport/parser-cctalk@serialport/parser-readline@serialport/parser-delimiter@serialport/parser-byte-length@serialport/parser-spacepacket@serialport/parser-slip-encoder@serialport/parser-packet-length@serialport/parser-inter-byte-timeout
npm install serialport- jsDelivr
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/serialport@13.0.0/ - unpkg
https://unpkg.com/serialport@13.0.0/ - esm.sh
https://esm.sh/serialport@13.0.0
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