option to reuse tab each time open is called (might require browser plugin)

[dylang]

Unless you are diligent about closing new tabs, starting and killing grunt many times while debugging eventually the browser will have a sea of identical tabs.

It would be nice if there was an option to request the browser to "reuse" the same tab each time grunt-open was used.

I haven't looked to see if browsers have this option on the command line. I'm guessing it's not possible to request the browser uses the same tab the way target="name" works on <a href.., so this might require a browser extension.

Other ideas how to prevent the sea of tabs from happening?

[jsoverson]

I know the frustration but don't know a solution. If anyone finds one, please post or submit a PR.

[ttdmayshark]

+1

[mike-spainhower]

:+1:

[dylang]

Maybe this can solve it, at least for Mac users.

https://github.com/prasmussen/chrome-cli

[mokkabonna]

+1 but suspect it's hard to do. Currently I'm not using open because of this.

[generalov]

Here is an issue for Chromium https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=141942

[generalov]

It seems that it is possible to reload tabs in Chrome through the remote debugger https://gist.github.com/generalov/9778791 .

[LeonardoGentile]

+1

[yamsellem]

+1

[LeonardoGentile]

not related to grunt but I've kinda solved with this: https://github.com/LeonardoGentile/chrome-duplicate-tab-detector

[Falven]

+1