Angular CLI - Auto launch browser on localhost after app start with ng serve
This is a super quick tutorial to show how to automatically open the browser on localhost after starting an app with Angular CLI.
Pass the --open option to ng serve
Run the following Angular CLI command to start the application and automatically launch it in a new browser window.
ng serve --open
Ng serve command output
Here's the output from the command when I ran it on an Angular 14 project, it automatically opened in Chrome (my default browser) after compiling.
> ng serve --open
ā Browser application bundle generation complete.
Initial Chunk Files | Names | Raw Size
vendor.js | vendor | 2.39 MB |
polyfills.js | polyfills | 318.10 kB |
styles.css, styles.js | styles | 210.36 kB |
main.js | main | 38.35 kB |
runtime.js | runtime | 6.56 kB |
| Initial Total | 2.95 MB
Build at: 2022-11-23T02:38:22.490Z - Hash: 98d10ea69f118837 - Time: 10496ms
** Angular Live Development Server is listening on localhost:4200, open your browser on http://localhost:4200/ **
√ Compiled successfully.
Install or update Angular CLI
If you need to install or update Angular CLI, execute the following npm command.
npm install -g @angular/cli
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