Open browser automatically on run

Hi, I’m trying to use the open-browser-webpack-plugin to launch my storybook in the browser as soon as it’s ready. However, when I use this plugin, the server hangs and doesn’t render anything.

I opened an issue on that repo as well because I’m not sure where the problem lies. (My suspicion is that it’s something in the way that plugin unregisters after build conflicting with the HMR plugin?)

Here’s the webpack config I’m using in my storybook:

const OpenBrowserPlugin = require('open-browser-webpack-plugin');

module.exports = {
  plugins: [
    new OpenBrowserPlugin({url: 'http://localhost:9001/'})
  ]
};

Thanks!

[ericandrewlewis]

Hey there,

the Webpack team added this option to webpack-dev-server which I think is swell. Maybe Storybook can do similar? so then start-storybook --open could open the browser automatically on start?

[ericandrewlewis]

@shilman are you into adding this as an option to storybook itself? I’d be down to work on it 😃