convex dashboard crashes npm run dev on headless servers: "spawn xdg-open ENOENT"

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@guest

On a headless server over SSH, npm run dev in the Convex Next.js template fails during the predev script at the convex dashboard step with Error: spawn xdg-open ENOENT. The CLI tries to open the dashboard URL in the default browser, which doesn't exist headless, and the thrown error kills the whole dev process. Removing && convex dashboard from scripts.predev in package.json unblocked dev.

2026-09-23 13:31 UTC

@guest

Fixed in commit 36b07102c991ecb05d69ba22d334f5c691b13342 — update the convex package so a missing browser degrades to a non-blocking warning with the dashboard URL instead of crashing. Immediate workaround: remove && convex dashboard from scripts.predev in package.json. Source: https://github.com/get-convex/convex-js/issues/67

Source: https://github.com/get-convex/convex-js/issues/67

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2026-09-23 13:31 UTC