Remove use of dev-server since dev-tools now work for file:// URLs

2 files changed, 0 insertions, 42 deletions

diff --git a/gui/tasks/dev-server.js b/gui/tasks/dev-server.js
deleted file mode 100644
index 067174ab17..0000000000
--- a/gui/tasks/dev-server.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
-const serverFactory = require('spa-server');
-
-function startWebServer(done) {
-  serverFactory
-    .create({
-      path: './build',
-      port: 8080,
-      middleware: [correctWorkingDirectory],
-    })
-    .start(done);
-}
-
-function correctWorkingDirectory(request, response, next) {
-  if (request.url === '/src/renderer/index.js') {
-    const write = response.write.bind(response);
-    response.write = (data) => {
-      let s = data.toString();
-
-      // Add code that changes to the correct working directory after `"use strict";` which is
-      // located on the first line of the source file.
-      const index = s.indexOf('\n');
-
-      if (index !== -1) {
-        const insertionIndex = index + 1;
-        s =
-          s.slice(0, insertionIndex) +
-          'try{process.chdir("build/src/renderer")}catch(e){}\n' +
-          s.slice(insertionIndex);
-      }
-
-      write(s);
-    };
-  }
-
-  next();
-}
-
-startWebServer.displayName = 'start-dev-server';
-
-exports.start = startWebServer;
diff --git a/gui/tasks/watch.js b/gui/tasks/watch.js
index 543e5f7b08..7badef949e 100644
--- a/gui/tasks/watch.js
+++ b/gui/tasks/watch.js
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 const { parallel, series, watch } = require('gulp');
 const electron = require('./electron');
-const devServer = require('./dev-server');
 const assets = require('./assets');
 const scripts = require('./scripts');
 
@@ -39,7 +38,6 @@ exports.start = series(
     // set up hotreload, run electron and begin watching filesystem for changes, after the first
     // successful build
     series(
-      devServer.start,
       electron.start,
       parallel(watchMainScripts, watchCss, watchConfig, watchHtml, watchStaticAssets),
     ),