How to start a local server and open it in a browser from a shell script

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Published on 2012-12-03T06:31:12Z Indexed on 2012/12/03 11:27 UTC
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I have a test suite which runs in a browser (using QUnit, though that's unimportant). The test suite requires a local server running on a particular port. Running the tests currently involves a few steps:

node test/server
switch to browser of choice
open localhost:3000

I'd like to have a single command which starts the server then runs open localhost:3000. Ideally, the node process would remain in the foreground so it could be killed with ^C. I don't have a good understanding of subshells, so I'm not sure whether this is possible.

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