Is openChrome.applescript needed?

[spartanicus]

This is definitely a trivial issue, but I was surprised when I launched my browser from the OSX terminal that Chrome was opened. Moving/renaming vite/bin/openChrome.applescript out of the way allows my default browser to open.

Following the principle of least astonishment, it seems preferable that vite on the osx terminal launch my default browser if my environment has not been set.

Since we also have the ability to set up a specific browser and pass it arguments, is the openChrome.applescript file needed? Does it do something special?

[patak-dev]

See

vite/packages/vite/src/node/server/openBrowser.ts

Line 99 in bf3e410

`osascript openChrome.applescript "${url}" "${openedBrowser}"`,

  // If we're on OS X, the user hasn't specifically
  // requested a different browser, we can try opening
  // a Chromium browser with AppleScript. This lets us reuse an
  // existing tab when possible instead of creating a new one.

[spartanicus]

Thanks for the quick response! I'm still getting used to the ecosystem, and I figured there was a good reason for that file. I get it now.

[patak-dev]

good luck with your explorations! I hope Vite works well for you :)

[spartanicus]

Thanks! I'm loving it so far. :-)