quarto preview book

[kiankyars]

Description

Hey, I'm just curious because the command that I have titled this post as is what I use very often. Its default behavior is to open up the new local host at the port created in your default browser. This is quite annoying, and I feel like the default behavior should be just to show the link in the terminal and that's it. I'm happy to make the PR to input this change, but I first want to understand if there's a specific reason why the workflow is such currently.

[mcanouil]

• Could you edit the title to something meaningful?
• Could you also make your post "self-contained"? "It's all written in the title" is bad for accessibility.

[gordonwoodhull]

I think you are asking why Quarto doesn’t open the page using file://, and opens it using a web server instead.

This is because many web features (like fetching resources across domains) don’t work with local files.

[cderv]

Its default behavior is to open up the new local host at the port created in your default browser. This is quite annoying, and I feel like the default behavior should be just to show the link in the terminal and that's it.

If you are talking about the default of quarto preview to open a browser, see quarto preview --help about --no-browser or even --no-serve

  --no-serve                   - Don't run a local preview web server (just monitor and re-render input files)
  --no-navigate                - Don't navigate the browser automatically when outputs are updated.
  --no-browser                 - Don't open a browser to preview the site.

We won't change default to use --no-browser but you can definitely create an alias or use it for all your work.

[kiankyars]

Thanks for your reply. I feel kind of noobish, I didn't even look at the help menu to see if there was an option to prevent this, but I appreciate you letting me know.