electron-usb
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node-usb fork to be used with electron. It's a fork from node-usb which binary are released on github. It's a temporary solution until binary package will be available for node 5.1.x and windows / linux platforms on node-usb. Pleas refer to https://github.com/nonolith/node-usb on how to use these APIs.
Install the node version used by electron (currently is 5.1.1 for electron 0.36.7).
A github valid NODE_PRE_GYP_GITHUB_TOKEN to be set as env variable.
Remember to change the binary host with the correct version (see https://github.com/bchr02/node-pre-gyp-github). After the release, build the binaries for each OS.
On Ubuntu 15.10, install:
sudo apt-get install libudev-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev g++-multilib libudev-dev:i386
And then run npm run release-linux (x64) or npm run release-linux-ia32 (ia32) to publish
the binary build
Use a Windows 7 on x64. Install Visual Studio (2013 is OK on Windows 7) and Python 2.7.x
Always specify the VisualStudio version using --msvs_version=xxxx, foor instance
npm i --msvs_version=2013
Release using npm run release-win --msvs_version=2013 (x64) or npm run release-win-ia32 --msvs_version=2013 (ia32)
After npm i, just use npm run release
FAQs
Library to access USB devices
The npm package electron-usb receives a total of 2 weekly downloads. As such, electron-usb popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that electron-usb demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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