Kaze Serial

Kaze Serial is a modern, (should be) high-performance serial terminal application built with Tauri, Next.js, and React. It provides a sleek interface for monitoring serial ports, with advanced features like regex-based highlighting and split-view analysis.

Since I work as an embedded software developper, most of my work time consist of looking on serial monitor for debug purpose. I used to work a lot with minicom and more recently with Serial Monitor Rust. Highlight features on Serial Monitor Rust was not his main purpose and i'm not so confident with EGUI framework.
Since I wanted to learn React, i did this simple project, and of course Copilot and LLM agent help me a lot for bootstraping this project.

Features

• Serial Connectivity:
  • Automatic detection of available serial ports.
  • Configurable baud rates (9600 to 921600).
• High-Performance Logging:
  • Virtualized log list (using react-window) to handle large amounts of data efficiently.
  • Auto-scroll with pause-on-hover/scroll-up capability.
  • Clicking on a row of focus view will scroll the main log view to this element
• Advanced Analysis:
  • Regex Highlighting: Define custom regex patterns to highlight specific log messages with custom colors.
  • Split View: A secondary "Focus" terminal to isolate matched logs or view different parts of the stream.
  • Sentence removal: Remove garbage by sentence matching
• Export/import:
  • export: Export raw log (without highligh and sentence removal applied) to a file
  • import: Re-import previous log file
• Cross-Platform: Runs on Linux and Windows, not tested so far on macOS (powered by Tauri).

Tech Stack

• Frontend: Next.js (React), TypeScript, Material UI.
• Backend: Tauri (Rust) for system interaction and serial port management.
• State Management: React Hooks + Tauri Commands.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Node.js (v18+ recommended)
• Rust (latest stable) & Cargo
• System dependencies for Tauri (see Tauri Prerequisites)

Installation

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/simon0356/KazeSerial.git
   cd KazeSerial

2. Install frontend dependencies:

   npm install

Development

To run the application in development mode (with hot-reloading for both frontend and Rust backend):

npm run tauri dev

Build

To build the application for production:

npm run tauri build

The output binary/installer will be located in src-tauri/target/release/bundle/.

Configuration

• Highlights: Highlight settings are automatically saved to highlight_settings.json in the application configuration directory.

License

MIT