Can't open browser when using heroku open / webpack-dev-server --open

[wasabigeek]

How can I allow external packages to open the browser from within Bash?

For example, with webpack-dev-server --open I get: "Unable to open browser. If you are running in a headless environment, please do not use the open flag."

[therealkenc]

Use Firefox under VcXsrv in WSL, or launch a Windows browser with interop like here.

[wasabigeek]

Thanks @therealkenc!

For anyone else who has the same issue, I added export BROWSER=/mnt/c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Google/Chrome/Application/chrome.exe (your path may vary) to my .bashrc file. This set the default browser to be Chrome, which opens with Interop flawlessly.

Reference: https://askubuntu.com/a/16626

[langarus]

@wasabigeek Thanks, this solved the issue