Summary: To avoid the cases whereas Flipper opens up in engineer's default browser which may be different than Chrome. Reviewed By: aigoncharov Differential Revision: D46682220 fbshipit-source-id: 38d0ddefbc67989c5ec97a66e4a419318a66bc95
flipper-server (TBD)
Stand alone Flipper server as NodeJS process, that uses flipper-server-core for device communication and also provides a webserver to serve flipper-ui.
Flipper-server can be used as background process, for example on CI servers or to power IDE plugins.
Running flipper server
From NPM
TODO:
From source
cd <Flipper checkout>/desktop
yarn install
yarn flipper-server
Production build from source
cd <Flipper checkout>/desktop
yarn install
yarn build:flipper-server
Pass the --open flag to open Flipper server after building
Use --no-rebuild-plugins to speed up subsequent builds if default plugins have been build already