Wails: How to run two different wails serve applications on one host?

Created on 28 Apr 2020 · 7Comments · Source: wailsapp/wails

Description

I want to develop two difference GUI apps at the same time. but wails uses one port for brige interface

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behaviour:

Run wails serve on first folder
Run wails serve on second folder
Bind address already in use error occurs

Expected behaviour
Standard environment

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System Details

| Name | Value |
| ----- | ----- |
| Wails Version | v1.0.3-pre2 |
| Go Version | go1.13.6 |
| Platform | darwin |
| Arch | amd64 |
| GO111MODULE | (Not Set) |
| GCC | 11.0.3 |
| Npm | 6.14.4 |
| Node | v14.0.0 |

enhancement wontfix

Source

svkior

Most helpful comment

@tmclane @leaanthony
having wails server check for port and if in use simply +1 from go's perspective seems trivial and useful.
Is there an easy way for the js part to follow the right port?

bh90210 on 30 Apr 2020

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All 7 comments

This isn't currently possible without editing the source.

tmclane on 28 Apr 2020

@tmclane @leaanthony
having wails server check for port and if in use simply +1 from go's perspective seems trivial and useful.
Is there an easy way for the js part to follow the right port?

bh90210 on 30 Apr 2020

👍2

That's a great idea. Not sure of the use case but why not. Trivia #1 it's Wails 1St open source birthday. Trivia #2 the websockets port is "wails" with a sideways w

leaanthony on 1 May 2020

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Created a branch: https://github.com/wailsapp/wails/tree/399---Add-serve-port-flag
This seems to work with one weird side-effect: specifying a port other than 34115 results in a delay during connection. @tmclane - any thoughts?

leaanthony on 5 May 2020

@leaanthony - I'll check this branch today

svkior on 13 May 2020

How did you go @svkior ?

leaanthony on 15 May 2020

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