I am learning react and find myself running npm start
on the terminal a couple of times but its annoying how it opens a new browser window everytime. I'm trying to stop this from happening on linux.
I found a solution for how to do this on Windows, but how can I do it on Linux?
Adding BROWSER=none
to the .env
file should get it solved.
I don't think you need to run npm start
so often. I've created my project via create-react-app
which comes with Hot Module Reloading or HMR(restarts the server on any saved edit) in-built.
Starting a new React server multiple times can also be problematic as every time it will run on a different port. If you're integrating an API that has CORS set up for a particular port, it won't work on other instances.
What to do?
create-react-app
(cra) or add HMR using some library if you don't want to use cra
. Here is a tutorial for that (haven't tested it).Ctrl + C
when you don't want to use it.If the folder /etc/profile.d doesn't exist create it. Then run touch /etc/profile.d/[any descriptive name here].sh
and open it in the text editor of your choice. Then add export BROWSER=none
there.
Then logout and login again. If it didn't work then try putting export BROWSER="none" in the file
.
This is setting an environment variable.
Hope this helps.