Experimental Mode not working with Windows (and WSL)

[matthewchigira]

Issue

When using Merge in Windows using the WSL, experimental mode has a problem.

In the URL that it generates and opens, it will insert the ^ character after your port number. This results in the page not being able to load.

Workaround

The workaround is to manually delete the ^ character from the URL in the browser and that enables the page to load. N.B. this does not affect the normal uxpin-merge push command.

Idea for fix

If we can't prevent this character from being inserted (perhaps it comes from a bug in WSL), then we can just manually strip out ^ characters from final generated string.

[matthewchigira]

This is caused by a bug for WSL environments in the deprecated opn package.

A fix has been made in the new version of the package, which is called open.

If we use the new open package, then we can utilise the fix by specifying the URL option