react-dev-utils openBrowser does not work from WSL when $BROWSER is a linux path

[stephen-zhao]

In WSL, despite using a Windows binary browser, my $BROWSER environment variable is set to its *nix path /mnt/d/Program Files (x86)/Google/Chrome/Application/chrome.exe as opposed to its Windows equivalent of D:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe. This causes openBrowser (from react-dev-utils) to fail.

I noticed that openBrowser makes a call to opn where the root issue actually occurs. So to solve this more generically, I decided to open an issue at their repo as well, where I hope to be submitting a PR soon.

This issue is for reference purposes.

sindresorhus/open#117

[mrmckeb]

That's great @stephen-zhao, please keep us updated on the progress of that PR and we'll be happy to accept a PR here too if needed.

[stephen-zhao]

The pull request has been merged at sindresorhus/open#118.

Version 6.0.0 of the package was just released, which includes the necessary changes. The name of the package has changed from 'opn' to 'open', so careful with that.

https://github.com/sindresorhus/open/releases/tag/v6.0.0

[iansu]

@stephen-zhao Thanks for the update. Would you like to make a PR to upgrade that package for us?

[iansu]

Looks like this has been fixed in the open package. Can you try the latest release and see if this has improved? If not please open a new issue.