Is it possible to add a field to disable AutoLaunch?

[HereOrCode]

Why add the disableAutoLaunch field?

disableAutoLaunch: true // Do not auto-open the browser
disableAutoLaunch: false // Auto open the Browser

For example:

https://github.com/aklinker1/vite-plugin-web-extension/blob/161921596f71f760a30d18a3a355de31f2bba97e/packages/vite-plugin-web-extension/src/index.ts#L19

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I set disableAutoLaunch to true and manually loaded the chrome-mv3 directory for development so that I could easily debug the background.js

Currently using WXT, and I've encountered a debugging issue: How to debug background.js?

[aklinker1]

@code4you2021 you need to enable dev mode in chrome to see the inspect view. You've done it in your personal profile, but not the blank profile that web-ext opens in by default.

I'll add this feature, because there are other cases where this is useful, but in your case, you just need to toggle the switch in the top right corner of chrome://extensions.

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I'll look into seeing if it's possible to enable this setting by default when opening the browser from WXT.

[aklinker1]

Released in v0.6.6. See #136 for how to disable opening the browser automatically.

[HereOrCode]

@aklinker1

I found a problem, when disable is true, the output folder is hidden.

Can it be a visible directory?

disable: true // out folder visible (output/chrome-mv3)
disable: false // out folder hidden (.output/chrome-mv3)

[aklinker1]

@code4you2021 The output folder is visible in the output file list, regardless of runner.disabled.

runner.disabled: false

runner.disabled: true

[aklinker1]

Oh, I see what you mean, it's a hidden directory that starts with a dot.

I think you're mistaken, it's always a hidden directory, regardless of runner.disabled. This directory is hard coded that way

I don't plan on making it a non-hidden directory. I might add a config option for it though.

If you have trouble opening the directory, most terminals will let you ctrl+click a directory to open it in the system file explorer. Editors also let you open a file's location in the system file explorer.

[HereOrCode]

I'm sorry I didn't express myself very clearly

If runner.disabled is set to true and the out folder is hidden, chrome will not load the out folder.

[aklinker1]

No worries! On Mac, cmd+shift+. will show hidden files.

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You can also drag and drop the directory onto the chrome://extensions

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[HereOrCode]

Thanks.