How to open browser to localhost through npm scripts

Question

I\'ve been trying to figure out how to write a npm script that will culminate with the application being launched in the user\'s browser without them having to

Answer 1

If You use Webpack There is another way to do this using the webpack-dev-server

• Install it using npm install webpack-dev-server --save-dev

• Then run webpack-dev-server or configure npm script like this :
  "start": "webpack-dev-server"

• Then navigate to http://localhost:8080

It serve per default files in the current directory. If you want to serve files from another directory you need to use the --content-base option like this:

webpack-dev-server --content-base thefolderyouwanttoserve/

More about webpack-dev-server here in the official webpack doc.