Serve: Feature: --open Option?

[kennedyrose]

Any way we could get an option to open http://localhost:{port}/ in the default browser? I've been using static-server since it supports this option, but I'd rather use serve if possible.

[sant123]

This feature was present in previous versions, ¿what happened?

[elboletaire]

Yup, I've ended here because I've just updated serve.. and some of my dev scripts started failing because now there's no -o option :confused:

[sant123]

@leo may you review this issue, please?

[kennedyrose]

I've submit a pull request for this feature.

[Telokis]

This PR seems nice. I'd like to have this feature! ❤️

[loopmode]

So currently, we can not specify the port at all using this module?

EDIT: Nevermind, -l does the trick for me, e.g. serve build -l 80.
Sorry for the noise :)

[FDiskas]

We can downgrade to "serve": "6.5.8",

[gkatsev]

Looks like this is due the rewrite of 7.0: https://github.com/zeit/serve/pull/374
It seems like the purpose of this project changed at that point as well. It's a lot more powerful now but to get a lot of the same features that previously existed you need to create a new config file and configure things. I think this is a huge step back from what was available in v6.
I've downgraded back down to v6 but I hope a lot of the features that were available by default back then would be re-added for the simplicity and ease-of-use it had previously.

[gluons]

This feature is very useful.
Why @zeit remove it?

@kennedyrose 's PR (#454) is closed. 🙄

Will we get this feature back?
Please bring back the -o. 😥

[cniesen]

This feature is very useful.
Why @zeit remove it?

@kennedyrose 's PR (#454) is closed. 🙄

Will we get this feature back?
Please bring back the -o. 😥

It's documented in the #454 as to why the feature will not be incorporated.
Feature creep and added dependencies. Makes sense. Look at this stack exchange for alternatives:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40713752/how-to-open-browser-to-localhost-through-npm-scripts/41267691#41267691