Does it make sense to expose an option in lighthouse core to launch chrome?

[samccone]

The common use-case for using lighthouse programmatically is to launch chrome with it.. right now that is a nested promise with a bit of clean up at the end... The reason for most of this work boils down to the need to pass port from the launcher to lighthouse.. because of this I think it might be nice to do something like

flags.launchChrome = true;
return Lighthouse(url, flags, config);

Which would take care of killing and launching chrome.

[wardpeet]

Fine by
cc @paulirish @ebidel @patrickhulce @brendankenny

[ebidel]

I like it. We need to cater better to the common cases like this. One question I have is how we would handle lh flags, flags to the launcher, and chromeFlags Would everything go in flags?

[devtools-bot]

This issue was moved to GoogleChrome/chrome-launcher#3