npm run dev loads two new tabs with every change

[platypii]

Steps to reproduce:

• npm run dev
• make any code change
• two new tabs will open in your browser

Opening the browser makes sense at launch. Similar behavior to jupyter notebook which also launches into a file browser when you start it on the cli.

But need to figure out how we can disable that when vite does a hot reload.

[severo]

Indeed, it's atrocious. working on it

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OK, it's because we re-run the cli script twice, and it opens the page in the browser on start.

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Some options:

• try to keep a reference to the opened tab and to close it when the server exits (maybe https://github.com/sindresorhus/open could help, not sure) - only the last opened tab would be kept after a refresh
• try to get the list of opened tabs, see if one has a given identifier, and refresh it with the new app. I don't think it's feasible (and worse: cross platform and with multiple browsers)
• don't automatically open the tab (or just in production mode?) - let the developer open it / refresh it manually, or use a tool to do so automatically when in dev mode (https://browsersync.io/docs/command-line ?)

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OK, I did the simplest solution for now: #177