Ionic-cli: Feature Request: Allow additional browser options to be passed in when calling ionic serve

Created on 21 May 2017 · 6Comments · Source: ionic-team/ionic-cli

It would be very useful if the Ionic CLI allowed additional options to be passed through to the browser when calling
ionic serve --browser chrome

A common scenario when starting Google Chrome as part of development activities is for remote debugging to be enabled via the Chrome command line option
--remote-debugging-port=9222

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ChrisPearce

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another opportunity here is to pass --user-data-dir to enable using dedicated browser instance with its own settings (i.e. breakpoints), extensions (i.e. chrome redux dev tools) etc.

ciekawy on 8 Nov 2017

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Ok so these parameters should be supplied to chrome when starting via ionic serve, correct?

janpio on 22 May 2017

Yes.

The most common scenario is the need to start Google Chrome with remote debugging enabled using the command line statement:
google chrome --remote-debugging-port=9222
or
chrome.exe --remote-debugging-port=9222

ChrisPearce on 22 May 2017

@ChrisPearce Right now we don't execute the chrome binary, we just open the webpage. Interesting idea! I could explore this sometime, but sort of low priority for me right now.

imhoffd on 23 May 2017

another opportunity here is to pass --user-data-dir to enable using dedicated browser instance with its own settings (i.e. breakpoints), extensions (i.e. chrome redux dev tools) etc.

ciekawy on 8 Nov 2017

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I thinks it's indeed a must-have.
In dev environment, I need to launch my chrome browser with security disabled "--disable-web-security --user-data-dir". I'm currently compelled to do that manually.