Hi
I just wanted to share a little trick for using efficiently using the --show
argument with bokeh serve
on windows.
My pain is that the default browser is edge
and cannot be changed for reasons outside of my control. I could see that I could set the default browser for Bokeh/ Panel using the BOKEH_BROWSER
environment variable. But when I tried setting it to chrome
or firefox
it did not work. After some reverse engineering of the webbrowser
module I found out I need to set
BOKEH_BROWSER="C:/Program\ Files/Google/Chrome/Application/chrome.exe %s &"
BOKEH_BROWSER="C:/Program\ Files\ (x86)/Mozilla\ Firefox/firefox.exe %s &"
or something similar.
It’s important you replace
-
“\” with “/” and
-
space with "\ "
so now I can run
python -m bokeh serve app.py --dev --show
and the app automatically opens in the right browser initially and when I change and save the code.