Opening non-default browser with lite-server in angular2 quick start guide

Question

Having followed the TypeScript version of the Angular 2 Quick Start guide, I was wondering if it is possible, and if so how to configure the lite-server to launch a browser othe

Answer 1

Recent changes (@2.1.0) let you set your configs, including browser(s), via bs-config.json:

{
  "browser": "chrome"
}

or

{
  "browser": ["chrome","firefox"]
}

If you want to set up separate scripts for each broswer you can do the following in your package.json:

{
  "scripts": {
    "lite": "lite-server",
    "lite:ff": "lite-server --c bs-firefox.json",
    "lite:c": "lite-server --c bs-chrome.json",
    "lite:ie": "lite-server --c bs-ie.json",
    "lite:all": "lite-server --c bs-all.json"
  }
}

While it's not the best solution since you have to copy and maintain your config in multiple files, it seems to be what is intended by the lite-server maintainer. Here's the current lite-server.js file for reference.