Executing "ng serve" or "npm start" command browser is not opening automatically

[deepaksibar]

1. OS?
   Window 7
2. Versions?
   angular-cli: 0.0.39
   node: 5.4.1
   os: win32 x64

I have generated a project using angular-cli by following steps given in installation section. Project is running right now. But i have to open browser manually by typing http://localhost:4200/ into browser.

Could it be possible like when user will execute "ng serve" or "npm start" command, browser will open automatically?

Please let me know if it is possible or give me any solution for this.

Thanks in advance.

-Deepak

[Trendy]

I don't think the intention is to open the browser automatically. When you visit the URL (http://localhost:4200) the browser should be refreshed automatically when changes occur in the code.

[filipesilva]

We don't have this functionality at the moment, no. But I'll leave the issue open as a 'nice to have'.

[Splaktar]

Yes, it would be nice to have this as an option.

[deepaksibar]

Thanks for response.
On 17-Jun-2016 6:24 am, "Filipe Silva" notifications@github.com wrote:

We don't have this functionality at the moment, no. But I'll leave the
issue open as a 'nice to have'.

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[kamran-pervaiz]

can we not use lite-server written by john papa to open the browser after ng server on inside ng serve

[deepaksibar]

There may be ambiguity between lite-server port and ng server port.

[rburnham52]

I don't think the intention is to open the browser automatically. When you visit the URL (http://localhost:4200) the browser should be refreshed automatically when changes occur in the code.

@Trendy I would consider them 2 different features. The way i have seen the Refresh work is that you hit your site, the site has some javascript injected into it that listens for a command to tell it that something changed then it reloads the page. This is different from when you start the app sending a command to launch a browser and navigate to the URL.

If you never navigated to the url of your app then there would be no code running to listen when something changed. I guess its still doable but then you would probably need a browser plugin to listen instead

You could just change what npm start does in the package.json.

E.g. change
"start": "ng serve"
to
"start": "start http://localhost:4201 & ng serve -port 4201"
(for windows)

See http://stackoverflow.com/a/35261624 for Mac/Linux equivalents.

Or you could use the following if you want a cross platform solution:
https://www.npmjs.com/package/open

[deepaksibar]

Thanks

On 18-Sep-2016 2:12 pm, "Chris Foster" notifications@github.com wrote:

You can just change what npm start does in the package.json.

E.g. change
"start": "ng serve"
to
"start": "start http://localhost:4201 & ng serve -port 4201"
(for windows)

See http://stackoverflow.com/a/35261624 for Mac/Linux equivalents.

Or you could use the following if you want a cross platform
https://www.npmjs.com/package/open

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