GitHub Web Launcher

not the webdriver-manager cli

Using Github Web Launcher

Install globally:

npm install -g github-web-launcher

In a git repo folder via command line:

web

Why just web, because its short and easy to remember.

Example using GitHub Web Launcher

An example of using it:

In the terminal, in the protractor repository, under the folder path protractor/lib/driverProviders/ typing in web by default will navigate to the origin master url on GitHub found in the .git/config and navigate to the folder lib/driverProviders.

The result is https://github.com/cnishina/protractor/tree/master/lib/driverProviders

The contents of the .git/config is as follows:

[core]
	repositoryformatversion = 0
	filemode = true
	bare = false
	logallrefupdates = true
	ignorecase = true
	precomposeunicode = true
[remote "origin"]
	url = [email protected]:cnishina/protractor
	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
[branch "master"]
	remote = origin
	merge = refs/heads/master
[remote "upstream"]
	url = [email protected]:angular/protractor
	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/upstream/*

If this is the first time running it, it will download ChromeDriver, launch Chrome and navigate to chrome://version. It will parse the command line for Chrome and navigate to the url above.

Roadmap

Command line support for:

web <file> <remote> <branch>

View README.md in the default origin master:

web README.md

View a file or folder relative to the current directory assuming it is in the repository. In the following example, the current folder is lib.

web ../some/path/to/file_or_folder_1 
// github path = lib/some/path/to/file_or_folder_1

web some/path/to/file_or_folder_2
// github path = lib/some/path/to/file_or_folder_2

View a file or folder from the base of the repo, independent of where you are located in the repo.

web /some/path/to/file_or_folder

View the current directory for the upstream remote on a default master branch.

web . upstream

View the usptream remote and branch foobar

web <file_or_folder> upstream foobar