documentation for the use of BROWSER and BROWSER_ARGS

[greenpau]

The documentation for the use of BROWSER and BROWSER_ARGS may benefits from some example.

For example, when I run npm run start in VSCode with Remote SSH plugin on a remote systems, a browser window opens on my local PC (via port 3000 proxy set by VSCode) by default.

The homepage in package.json is set as follows.

"homepage": "/app/",

However, when the window opens, the trailing forward slash is not there. This results in app not being loaded.

http://localhost:3000/app

I have to manually, add /, i.e. http://localhost:3000/app/.

Some questions:

1. Does CRA triggers the opening of the window?
2. How do I manipulate BROWSER and BROWSER_ARGS such that the browser opens in http://localhost:3000/app?

Tried setting the following, but they it no effect. Opened local Chrome. I suspect VSCode takes direction from CRA.

BROWSER=firefox
BROWSER_ARGS="--incognito"

[greenpau]

Looked up environment variables and found that BROWSER is being set to point to .vscode-server helpers.

$ env | grep BROWSER
BROWSER=/home/greenpau/.vscode-server/bin/6261075646f055b99068d3688932416f2346dd3b/bin/helpers/browser.sh

The script follows:

#!/usr/bin/env sh
#
# Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
#
ROOT="$(dirname "$(dirname "$(dirname "$(readlink -f "$0")")")")"

APP_NAME="code"
VERSION="1.73.1"
COMMIT="6261075646f055b99068d3688932416f2346dd3b"
EXEC_NAME="code"
CLI_SCRIPT="$ROOT/out/server-cli.js"
"$ROOT/node" "$CLI_SCRIPT" "$APP_NAME" "$VERSION" "$COMMIT" "$EXEC_NAME" "--openExternal" "$@"

[greenpau]

The EXEC_NAME is set to code and $@ is set to http://localhost:3000/app. Thus, it looks like CRA is not adding the desired trailing forward slash.