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Update opn for WSL/Bash on Windows support

See original GitHub issue

Issue details

opn is required with 4.0.2 by browser-sync (used for opening the browser automatically). However, this version doesn’t work in WSL/Bash on Windows. The latest version works correctly in WSL/Bash on Windows. It would be nice if browser-sync could update opn to its recent release version 5.3.0.

Steps to reproduce/test case

Start browser-sync. Notice this warning:

[Browsersync] Couldn't open browser (if you are using BrowserSync in a headless environment, you might want to set the open option to false)

Please specify which version of Browsersync, node and npm you’re running

Browsersync [2.23.6]
Node [v8.11.3]
Npm [5.6.0]

Affected platforms

linux
windows
other: (Windows) WSL/Bash on Windows
OS X
freebsd
solaris

Browsersync use-case

API
Gulp
Grunt
CLI
webpack

for all other use-cases, (gulp, grunt etc), please show us exactly how you’re using Browsersync

(not related to this general issue with outdated opn)

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 5 years ago
Reactions:1
Comments:9 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

2reactions

shakyShanecommented, Aug 26, 2018

yeah I’ll get a release out in the next few hours

2reactions

Kurzdorcommented, Jul 14, 2018

You can use special BS version with updated opn package Here is the GitHub repo: https://github.com/Kurzdor/browser-sync And here is the npm package page: https://www.npmjs.com/package/browser-sync-wsl Tested it on my machine, works greatly. I will delete this BS version when devs will fix this issue. Thanks a lot!