Open multiple windows

[digitaljohn]

• Operating System:
• Node Version: v10.16.3
• NPM Version: 6.9.0
• webpack Version: 4.41.0
• webpack-dev-server Version: 3.8.1
• Browser: Chrome 77.0.3865.90

• This is a bug
• This is a modification request

Code

It would be really helpful to launch multiple windows using the openPage option rather than only a single one.

E.g.

// webpack.config.js

  devServer: {
    open: true,
    openPage: ["/pageone", "/pagetwo"]
  },

For Features; What is the motivation and/or use-case for the feature?

We are working on an application which in its nature requires multiple web-browser windows to be open.

[alexander-akait]

It is expected and can't be fixed because we don't have api for allowing browser to open page in same tab, also we use open library https://github.com/sindresorhus/open, open issue in this repo

Looks i was wrong

[alexander-akait]

What is use case?

[digitaljohn]

In my particular case, I am working on a presentation system where there are three browser windows open (one on each of the three monitors connected). The browsers are synchronised using BroadcastChannel.

When starting a development session it's a chore to have to manually open three windows and change the urls to include ?window=1 etc.

Example visual below:

I do believe this may be an edge case and rare but I feel its something I may use over and over while developing multi user games/chat apps etc.

I am willing to perform the leg work and get a PR up and running if you think its a worthy feature.

[alexander-akait]

Yes, PR welcome 👍

[alexander-akait]

Done #2266