ProjectEvergreen/greenwood

Have develop command pick next randomly available port for dev and live reload servers

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#71 opened on May 1, 2019

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Description

Type of Change

  • New Feature Request
  • Documentation / Website
  • Improvement / Suggestion
  • Bug
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Summary

By default, instead of hardcoding the port for devServer it might be really nice to have it just pick the next available port on the user's local machine? This would in particular support running multiple instances of the dev server locally.

In addition, we should make sure to support this for the livereload port, since that will break in a similar use case (running multiple greenwood develop instances)

Details

Something similar to webpack-dev-server

Also, if we enable this, we might / should be able to run all our tests in parallel? Doesn't have to be in this PR, but a good fast follow if so! If we do run our tests in parallel, just need to be aware of this case

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Research direction
Investigate the develop command's port configuration and implement a method to find the next available port, similar to webpack dev server.
Tech stack
javascriptnodejs
Domain
clideveloper experience
Issue type
Feature
DifficultyEstimated implementation difficulty for a new contributor, from 1 for very small changes to 5 for expert-level work.
2
Estimated timeA rough time range for an experienced contributor to investigate, implement, test, and prepare a pull request.
Half day
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Active
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Clear
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Node.js
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70