Run create-react-app in a certain browser

Question

Is it possible to launch create-react-app App in a certain browser of my choice? Currently, it always runs in the Chrome while I want it to do that in the Chrome Canary. Does anybody know?

Answer 1

You can use BROWSER environment variable to set which browser you wanna open the app in. For example,

BROWSER=firefox yarn start

or

BROWSER=firefox npm start

will open the app in firefox.

So, you can put something like this in your package.json

"scripts": {
  "start": "BROWSER=firefox react-scripts start",
  "build": "react-scripts build && sw-precache --config=sw-precache-config.js",
  "test": "react-scripts test --env=jsdom",

You can read more about it in this pull request thread