[Feature Request] Add a QR Code in terminal output to quickly open local from phone

[doppelganger9]

This a Feature Request for enhancing somewhat the dev/local experience 😎🤞.

It seems you are fond of QR Codes 🤓so here we go:

There exists a BrowserSync plugin called bs-console-qrcode.

• npm i bs-console-qrcode --save-dev
• Since there is a BrowserSync config file (bs-config.json), you just need to add a line :

{
  "files": [
    "./dist/**/*.{html,htm,css,js,svg}"
  ],
  "plugins": ["bs-console-qrcode"],
  "server": { "baseDir": "./dist" }
}

• Then run npm start, and you will see something like this :

• then scan it from a mobile device to open up the local PWA for example.

On iOS, this is as easy as opening up the photo app, looking at the QR Code, a popup will appear and you can click it, avoiding typing manually the address+port !

(I seem to recall having seen this idea from React Native CLI and found it useful)

Comments welcome, thank for your awesome work, btw! 👍

[peterpeterparker]

@doppelganger9 haha yes I was interesting exploring QR code these last few weeks, specially because I saw a use case in term of presentation

that's cool idea 👍

I think it would just need a bit more development than you description. Right now, there is not deep links, the app (https://deckdeckgo.app) start without presentation and its up the user to open the modal to search for his/her presentation and link it. So to implement this smoothly I think it would need an improvement where you could specify a parameter to the app in order to load a particular presentation (like https://deckdeckgo.app?presentation=my%20current%20presentation)

Definitely an interesting idea, thx a lot for the input 😀

P.S.: Regarding my add-ons description, of course if I understand you, that adding a QR code to link to the remote control respectively not to open the presentation on the phone? or did you rather like to open the presentation itself with the code?

[peterpeterparker]

Update on this subject: we may have integrated "deep links" in our upcoming editor for presentations 😉

It means that when it will be finished a properly tested we will be able to inherit the feature and display a QR code in the console which links to the remote directly