Create-react-app: start without opening url in browser

Created on 5 Sep 2017 · 6Comments · Source: facebook/create-react-app

I'm currently using create-react-app in an electron app without issues. The only discomforting thing is that whenever I start the development server it opens the app in the browser, which I don't need. Is there any way to pass a parameter to tell react-scripts to start the development server without redirecting?

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sebasgarcep

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Please see Advanced Configuration. You can create a .env file and add BROWSER=none.

Timer on 5 Sep 2017

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Please see Advanced Configuration. You can create a .env file and add BROWSER=none.

Timer on 5 Sep 2017

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Thanks! And sorry for the inconvenience, didn't catch that.

sebasgarcep on 5 Sep 2017

No problem! I'm on my mobile so I hope I didn't come off too terse.

Let us know if you need any more help. :-)

Timer on 5 Sep 2017

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You can also just write:

BROWSER=none yarn start

This sets the environment variable before running the script

benwinding on 14 Sep 2018

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also:
"scripts": { "start": "BROWSER=none react-scripts start" }
In package.json

masterBrog on 15 Nov 2018

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Note that in Windows, you would have to do set BROWSER=none && react-scripts start but this causes a small error window to pop up saying something along the lines of "couldn't find 'none' browser."

So, if you're running Windows, make a file named '.env' in root directory of project and put BROWSER=none inside of it.