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Connecting to a serial port on MAC OS

Sometimes you need to connect to the serial port of a device from your MAC OS computer. It's pretty simple, first you need to list all your serial ports using the command: ls /dev/tty* Then, find the device name you want to connect to and type the command: screen /dev/tty[DEVICE_NAME] , In the example above, if you want to connect to the tty.usbserial device, you will type in your terminal: screen /dev/tty.usbserial Type enter, wait some seconds and you will be connected to the device serial port!

Building a API Client for VueJS

Hello! In this post i will show you how you could create a simple API Client service to use in your VueJS application so you could easily make HTTP Server calls from your app. First, make sure to install the Vue-resource module in your app using npm or yarn like: npm install vue-resource --save Then, import it into your main.js file, like below: Now, create a new file named api-client.js, put it in a directory called "services" and add the code: The code is self explaining and you can modify it as your needs. Now, you only need to use your ApiClient anywhere in your application. Below, i'm giving you a sample of using it in a Login component. Hope you enjoy!