devserver shall be capable to open app not only in default system browser

[jerome-mare]

Issue to solve

When using the quasar-cli to launch the dev server, it opens the operating system default browser.

Feature requested

It will be interesting to be able to launch the browser of our choice with specific command line option. For example Google canary in incognito mode.

Proposed technical solution

opn is able to handle that scenario : https://github.com/sindresorhus/opn#readme
opn('https://localhost:8080/', {app: ['google canary', '--incognito']});

With quasar-cli, it will be possible to enhance the source file dev-server.jsto pass the option to opn

function openBrowser (url, options = {} ) {
  const opn = require('opn')
  opn(url, options)
}

// ....

 if (cfg.devServer.open && ['spa', 'pwa'].includes(cfg.ctx.modeName)) {
          const browser = cfg.devServer.browser || {} 
          openBrowser(cfg.build.APP_URL, browser)
  }

In this case, with the option browser of the devServer section, we can define the target browser, for example : {app: ['google canary', '--incognito']}

[rstoenescu]

Will do.

[rstoenescu]

Would you mind making a PR for this with your solution?

[jerome-mare]

I'm working on it but it don't seems to work the opn call in dev-server.js (function openBrowser - line 11) seems to be never called.

Will I do a PR on documentation website too to explain the option ?

[rstoenescu]

Sorry it took so long. Lots going on. Available in beta.10.

Using open prop to open with a specific browser and not with the default browser of your OS:

// quasar.conf.js

devServer: {
  open: 'firefox'
}

[jerome-mare]

Sorry, the pull request is here quasarframework/quasar-cli#220.
The issue was related with the quasar-cli and not quasar, my mistake

[rstoenescu]

Hi,

Can you instead port 4636d3a and test it out on legacy 0.17 quasar-cli?

Currently dealing with 1.0 stuff. Sorry for the inconvenience.

[rstoenescu]

Assuming you want it for 0.17?

[jerome-mare]

Hi,
I don't need it for 0.17. I can wait for the v1 stable.
But there was a feature in my pull request that is not in your commit.
The feature is to pass command line parameters to the target browser.
Can you integrate this too in quasar-cli v1 ?

I'm testing quasar v1 in a new side project for a week. It's a great work ! thank you !

[rstoenescu]

Sure it is.

devServer: {
open: 'firefox'
}

or open: { .... }

[jerome-mare]

Sorry, i cannot make it work (cf. screenshoot)

I remember that it was not possible to pass an object to open property and i finally use the property "browser" of the "devServer" section. I think that webpack-dev-server cannot pass object to opn component,but i don't really remember why. All is in my pull request. If you want i can create a new PR on quasar v1

[rstoenescu]

@jerome-mare open: ['google chrome'] --> no need to wrap it with { app: [....] }