Cli: Make automatic open of the browser optional

Created on 17 Nov 2019 · 4Comments · Source: netlify/cli

Could it be possible to make it possible that the netlify dev command opens the browser automatically? My browser is constantly opened and I don't need this feature. It's also some annoying for me because the browser that I use is not the default browser. It's a special nightly build of the Chromium browser. So whenever I run the netlify dev command a second instance of my browser will be startet. Could you please make this feature optional? Thanks in advance!

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janbaer

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A new config parameter was added in the latest release of 2.23.0 where you can specify autoLaunch in your netlify.toml to disable the auto-launch of browser when netlify dev starts. e.g.

[dev]
  autoLaunch = false

RaeesBhatti on 5 Dec 2019

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massively in favour of this! very annoying at the moment

frednomoon on 4 Dec 2019

One thing I've noticed is that if I close the browser tab/window too soon after it opens up, I immediately get a socket hang up error and netlify dev crashes.

therobinkim on 5 Dec 2019

I've created a PR to allow the users to configure this behavior. I'll try to get this merged and released today. But in the mean time you can do a local npm link of raees/autoLaunchConfig branch to use the changes.

RaeesBhatti on 5 Dec 2019

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A new config parameter was added in the latest release of 2.23.0 where you can specify autoLaunch in your netlify.toml to disable the auto-launch of browser when netlify dev starts. e.g.