Snowpack 3.0.5 fails to start on linux if xdg-open is not installed

[pdlug]

I'm running Snowpack 3.0.5 on an Ubuntu server, it fails to start if xdg-open is not installed (full trace below). Installing xdg-utils which contains xdg-open fixes this but this is undesirable dependency.

snowpack

  http://localhost:8080 • http://172.104.211.202:8080
  Server started in 24ms.

events.js:292
      throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
      ^

Error: spawn xdg-open ENOENT
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:269:19)
    at onErrorNT (internal/child_process.js:465:16)
    at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:80:21)
Emitted 'error' event on ChildProcess instance at:
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:275:12)
    at onErrorNT (internal/child_process.js:465:16)
    at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:80:21) {
  errno: -2,
  code: 'ENOENT',
  syscall: 'spawn xdg-open',
  path: 'xdg-open',
  spawnargs: [ 'http://localhost:8080' ]
}
error Command failed with exit code 1.

[FredKSchott]

I believe that this has always been an issue, but I agree that's no good. I thought we had some handling to catch open errors.

You can set --open none or devOptions.open: "none" to disable this behavior for now.

[pdlug]

Thanks, it was not a problem on Snowpack 2 or the RC build of Snowpack 3. I only had the issue after upgrading to 3 release.

[FredKSchott]

Okay, thanks. In the next release, the "open" package will be moved back to a real dependency (not bundled with snowpack) which should solve for this until we can figure out what's wrong here.