Choose which browser Webpack opens?

Question

I installed Vue.js using the CLI as found here:

# install vue-cli
$ npm install --global vue-cli
# create a new project using the "webpack" template
$ vue init webpack my-project
# install dependencies and go!
$ cd my-project
$ npm install
$ npm run dev

When I run it opens Safari, my default browser. I would like to specify Chrome (used only for development) without changing the OS default browser.

The webpack.dev.conf.js is as follows:

var utils = require('./utils')
var webpack = require('webpack')
var config = require('../config')
var merge = require('webpack-merge')
var baseWebpackConfig = require('./webpack.base.conf')
var HtmlWebpackPlugin = require('html-webpack-plugin')
var FriendlyErrorsPlugin = require('friendly-errors-webpack-plugin')

// add hot-reload related code to entry chunks
Object.keys(baseWebpackConfig.entry).forEach(function (name) {
  baseWebpackConfig.entry[name] = ['./build/dev-client'].concat(baseWebpackConfig.entry[name])
})

module.exports = merge(baseWebpackConfig, {
  module: {
    rules: utils.styleLoaders({ sourceMap: config.dev.cssSourceMap })
  },
  // cheap-module-eval-source-map is faster for development
  devtool: '#source-map',
  plugins: [
    new webpack.DefinePlugin({
      'process.env': config.dev.env
    }),
    // https://github.com/glenjamin/webpack-hot-middleware#installation--usage
    new webpack.HotModuleReplacementPlugin(),
    new webpack.NoEmitOnErrorsPlugin(),
    // https://github.com/ampedandwired/html-webpack-plugin
    new HtmlWebpackPlugin({
      filename: 'index.html',
      template: 'index.html',
      inject: true
    }),
    new FriendlyErrorsPlugin()
  ]
})

Anybody know how to specify Chrome in this configuration?

user_13199466 · Answer

For DevServer v4.0.0+

webpack.config.json

{
  // ...
  devServer:
  {
    open:
    {
      app:
      {
        name: 'firefox'
      }
    }
  },
  // ...
}

CLI

npx webpack serve --open-app-name 'firefox'

https://webpack.js.org/configuration/dev-server/#devserveropen

user_6351803 · Answer

For vue-cli 5.04, the only version that seems to work currently is in vue.config.js

module.exports = defineConfig({
    devServer: {
        open: {
            app: {
                name: 'opera',
            }
        }
    },
});

however

vue-cli-service serve --open-app-name 'opera'

does not work.

Choose which browser Webpack opens?

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