Since flutter 1.9 : how to run flutter app in a browser ? Flutter run -d chrome not working

Question

Since flutter 1.9 flutter_web is merged inside flutter. I'm trying to run the initial flutter app in a chrome browser but it fails. OS is ubuntu 19.04

The command I used with success: flutter upgrade

flutter create test_1_9

cd test_1_9

flutter run

The command not working:

flutter run -d chrome

=> No devices found with name or id matching 'chrome'

I tried with google-chrome as device name with same result

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• No issues found!

Solution 1

Have you enabled web support by flutter config --enable-web ?

Got Reference from this link

Solution 2

For these people whose chrome still cannot be detected even after flutter config --enable-web.You should check if your flutter in appropriate branch ,to list all branches, use:

flutter channel

output may looks like this:

Flutter channels:  
   beta  
   dev  
   master  
*  stable 

item with asterisk prefix indicates which branch you are in.To switch to master, try:

flutter channel master

after that, your flutter doctor can list chromedevice.

Solution 3

https://flutter.dev/docs/get-started/web

$ flutter channel master
$ flutter upgrade
$ flutter config --enable-web

$ flutter devices  //downloads sky_engine and sdk tools then shows a list of devices including chrome

$ flutter create test_app
$ flutter run -d chrome  //local host will run chrome

Solution 4

In my case - flutter doctor gave me the following output

[✗] Chrome - develop for the web (Cannot find Chrome executable at google-chrome)
    ! Cannot find Chrome. Try setting CHROME_EXECUTABLE to a Chrome executable.

as on arch, the binary is called google-chrome-stable and/or google-chrome-unstable

export CHROME_EXECUTABLE=/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable

was all that was needed to get it working.

Solution 5

flutter run -d chrome --web-renderer html

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Comments

[hawkbee]

that was prior to 1.9 release, it's now deprecated

[Abdul Qadir]

fantastic, i was searching solution for 2 hours before reaching this out. 100% works!

[Dhaval Kansara]

Even after running flutter config --enable-web still m getting error as No devices found with name or id matching 'chrome'.

[Sharad Paghadal]

which channel you are on? Please update the flutter once flutter upgrade

[Sharad Paghadal]

@DhavalKansara Make sure you are on stable channel

[Dhaval Kansara]

It was not working on the stable channel. After I took check out for the master branch I'll found chrome in flutter devices.

[Nato Boram]

To add to this, all available environment variables are declared here : github.com/flutter/flutter/blob/master/packages/flutter_tool‌​s/…. Right now, they are CHROME_EXECUTABLE and EDGE_ENVIRONMENT.

[Golden Lion]

in visual studio code for windows 10, select the main.dart file it will give you a run icon on the top right side, letting you run with debug.

[mdmundo]

This is really helpful! Thanks!

[JP Calvo]

Thanks, bro. This works in ubuntu 21.10.

[Kesselly Kamara]

Thanks always welcome