how to prevent lite-server from opening browser window on startup?

Question

I'm using the lite-server with npm run lite

my config file,

module.exports = {
    "server": { "baseDir": "./src" }
};

whenever I start the server, it opens up a new browser window. How do I prevent lite server opening browser window on server startup?

thanks.

Answer 1

It seems like browserSync has option open: false

https://www.browsersync.io/docs/options/#option-open

try in your bs-config.js

module.exports = {
    "server": { "baseDir": "./src" },
    "open": false
};

Or in bs-config.json in your project's folder:

{
   "server": { "baseDir": "./src" },
   "open": false
}

Answer 2

Lite-server uses

BrowserSync

And allows for configuration overrides via a local

bs-config.json

or

 bs-config.js

file in your project.

The default behavior of the server serves from the current folder, opens a browser, and applies an HTML5 route fallback to ./index.html. so we need to set the configuration

For example, to change the server port, watched file paths, and base directory for your project, create a bs-config.json in your project's folder:

{
  "port": 8000,
  "files": ["./src/**/*.{html,htm,css,js}"],
  "server": { "baseDir": "./src" }
}

So for browser not opening you have to set like this

{
  "port": 8000,
  "files": ["./src/**/*.{html,htm,css,js}"],
  "server": { "baseDir": "./src" },
  "open":false
}