Re-use current tab instead of open a new one

[elrumordelaluz]

• Operating System: OSX
• Node Version: 8.11.0
• NPM Version: 6.0.0
• webpack Version: 4.7.0
• webpack-serve Version: 0.3.2

• bug
• feature request
• modification request

Code

CLI Command

  $ webpack-serve ... # remove this block if using the API

webpack.config.js

  // If your bitchin' code blocks are over 20 lines, please paste a link to a gist
  // (https://gist.github.com).

  // additional code, HEY YO remove this block if you don't need it

Expected Behavior

Try to refresh the current browser window

Actual Behavior

Open always a new tab

New Feature Use Case

Inspired on create-react-app solution.

Since I usually use Google Chrome, I expect to stay in the same (current) browser tab
when re-launch webpack-serve, instead of use a new one and close those more.

Just curious if the Webpack people/ecosystem are interested in having this behaviour (will PR in case), since is very specific to Chrome browser in OSX platform.

Furthermore, the solution requires to have an extra file .applescript in the package.

Thoughts?

related

[shellscape]

@elrumordelaluz thanks for the issue 🍺

If you can find a way to make that happen with https://github.com/sindresorhus/opn, you probably won't need a custom feature or option in webpack-serve, as we allow passing through most options already, and that module handles opening up your browser of choice.

[elrumordelaluz]

create-react-app uses opn but tries to open the same tab using .applescrip

[shellscape]

I would recommend using the listening event and running that AppleScript locally. That's just too much complexity for this project for a single browser on a single platform.

If you'd like to contribute an applescript file to the repo in the docs directory, we can add a note tlo the open option, and an example of how to accomplish that on a per-user basis.

[elrumordelaluz]

That's just too much complexity for this project for a single browser on a single platform.

Absolutely agree

If you'd like to contribute an applescript file to the repo in the docs

Sound good for me

[elrumordelaluz]

This is the file from CRA. Any advice on Licenses and so on?

The example could fit in Readme?

[shellscape]

Well it's licensed under MIT, so you'd have to keep that header in it if you were going to use it verbatim.

The example could fit in Readme?

No, but we'd put a link to a directory in the docs directory, which would contain the example snippet needed.

[elrumordelaluz]

Cool, so will add the .applescript file and another reuse-current-tab.js with the serve config