Angular-cli: Ability to specify browser to open with ng serve --open

[jibbers42]

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Versions.

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@angular/cli: 1.0.0-rc.2
node: 6.10.0
os: linux x64
@angular/common: 2.4.10
@angular/compiler: 2.4.10
@angular/core: 2.4.10
@angular/forms: 2.4.10
@angular/http: 2.4.10
@angular/platform-browser: 2.4.10
@angular/platform-browser-dynamic: 2.4.10
@angular/router: 3.4.10
@angular/cli: 1.0.0-rc.2
@angular/compiler-cli: 2.4.10

Repro steps.

ng serve --open

The log given by the failure.

NA

Desired functionality.

The use case is to make it convenient for a developer to use a different browser for development than for daily browsing.

I would like to be able to set the browser that is opened - similar to the way live-server allows.
https://www.npmjs.com/package/live-server

For example, in file ~/.live-server.json, I have:

{
  "browser": "google-chrome",
  "wait": 100
}

Mention any other details that might be useful.

[clydin]

Something to note about the option is that it is not cross-platform which can make it very awkward to use with a group of developers.
For example, Chrome is google-chrome on linux, google chrome on mac, and chrome on windows.

[jibbers42]

That's true, and it's the reason I called out the ability to have a config file in your home directory. I agree that a project setting wouldn't be as useful.

[mgechev]

Thanks for sharing your idea! This is out of the scope for now. As a workaround, I'd recommend you to do something like this in your package.json:

"scripts": {
  "start": "ng serve && open http://localhost:4200"
}

Hope this works for you! Alternatively, look at ngx-build-plus.

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