Make launch editor a standalone package.

[cpojer]

The launchEditor module is super useful: https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/blob/next/packages/react-dev-utils/launchEditor.js

I'd like to use it standalone, outside of create-react-app. Is there anyone willing to send a PR to make this a standalone package? :)

[egoist]

You mean https://github.com/yyx990803/launch-editor?

[cpojer]

Oh cool! Nevermind then – wondering why create-react-app isn't using this though.

[SimenB]

Or https://github.com/sindresorhus/open-editor

[Timer]

It looks like we added that file mere days after sindresorhus created his module, May 4th vs 14th so we probably didn't know about it.
launch-editor is extracted from our code base, so its effectively the same thing.

We should probably turn this into a module, it looks like open-editor doesn't have as much editor support and this would just be an official version of launch-editor.

[gaearon]

wondering why create-react-app isn't using this though

I don't think @yyx990803 reached out to suggest extracting it before forking. We'd be happy to collab on this and keep it as a separate package.

[gaearon]

(Didn't mean it in a bad way—I also fork a lot of stuff all the time because it takes time to establish relationships etc. But I'd be happy to give @yyx990803 commit rights in this repo and continue maintaining it here :-)

[yyx990803]

Yeah, I just assumed create-react-app kept it inside react-dev-utils for a reason (like all the other utils in there) so didn't make that suggestion.

Another reason I forked it is mostly because I may need to make changes that make it incompatible with the needs of create-react-app. If you guys are happy with the current API of launch-editor I'd be happy to collaborate.