Is there a way to automatically open the browser once the server starts?

[Fawke]

Somewhat similar to the open configuration property provided by gulp-webserver?

[franktopel]

We're using gulp-open for this:

const open = require('gulp-open');
gulp.task('open', function () {
    gulp
        .src(config.paths.dist.root + 'dev-site/index.html')
        .pipe(open({ uri: config.localServer.url, app: 'iexplore' }));
});
gulp.task('run-server', gulp.parallel('connect', 'open'));