Launch site after ng serve?

[rburnham52]

Is it possible to have ng serve launch your site after it starts up? I find this easier than having to copy the localhost with port address from the terminal and paste it into a new browser tab

[austingreendev]

This could be pretty easy to implement. I've done this before with the OPN package https://www.npmjs.com/package/opn.

There could be an additional flag on the serve command similar to the ones below:

• ng serve --browser to open the default browser
• ng serve --browser=firefox to open a specific browser

If anyone else thinks this is a good idea I may try a pull-request at this one.

[rburnham52]

Being able to select a browser like you suggested would be a nice touch as well.

[filipesilva]

Dupe of #1081

[filipesilva]

Please feel free to continue the discussion and proposals in the other issue though!

[keepscoding]

@Austin94 do you mind show how you implement OPN?

[austingreendev]

@keepscoding This conversation should probably be moved to the duplicate issue if that's still active, but from opn README https://www.npmjs.com/package/opn (or you can use the opn-cli package) we could just grab the port that it was started on and add the app name based off of a argument passed in.

// specify the app to open in 
opn('http://localhost:3000', {app: 'firefox'});
opn('http://localhost:3000', {app: 'google chrome'});

// for default browser
opn('http://localhost:3000');

[keepscoding]

@Austin94 where to add these code e.g. open default browser?

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