No "web server" listed as instructions say to expect

[j-vasil]

In step 4 (Prepare the Firebase and Flutter CLI) it says: "In your IDE under the devices pulldown, or at the command line using flutter devices, you should now see Chrome and Web server listed." I see Chrome and "Edge" but no "Web server".

PS C:...\friendlyeats-flutter> flutter devices Downloading Material fonts... 796ms Downloading Gradle Wrapper... 47ms Downloading package sky_engine... 363ms Downloading flutter_patched_sdk tools... 1,176ms Downloading flutter_patched_sdk_product tools... 797ms Downloading windows-x64 tools... 1,600ms Downloading windows-x64/font-subset tools... 387ms 2 connected devices:

Chrome (web) • chrome • web-javascript • Google Chrome 89.0.4389.114 Edge (web) • edge • web-javascript • Microsoft Edge 89.0.774.68

[ditman]

This is correct, the web-server device was hidden recently (to be used mainly for testing purposes).

For the web-server device to show up, and be usable, the flutter command needs to be called with the --show-web-server-device flag, like so:

$ flutter --show-web-server-device devices
2 connected devices:

Web Server (web) • web-server • web-javascript • Flutter Tools
Chrome (web)     • chrome     • web-javascript • Google Chrome 90.0.4430.70 beta