Merge pull request #305 from pycom/fix-serialport-through-plugin

Fix-serialport-through-plugin

Author: Jakob Rosenberg

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+## [2.3.4](https://github.com/pycom/pymakr-atom/compare/v2.3.3...v2.3.4) (2022-04-06)
+
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
+* use postinstall to install bindings with npm ([ff6635d](https://github.com/pycom/pymakr-atom/commit/ff6635dd0618134903d11bb9294a6f733f383c64))
+
 ## [2.3.3](https://github.com/pycom/pymakr-atom/compare/v2.3.2...v2.3.3) (2022-04-05)
 
 

lib/main.js

@@ -9,6 +9,15 @@ export default {
   config: Config.settings(),
 
   activate(state) {
+    try {
+      require('serialport');
+    } catch (err) {
+      if (err.code === 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND') {
+        console.log('serialport not installed. Installing...');
+        require('child_process').execSync('npm install serialport');
+        console.log('Installed serialport!');
+      }
+    }
 
     const _this = this;
     this.prepareSerialPort(error => {