How to disable headless mode in Laravel 5.5 (Dusk 2.0)?

I overwrite driver method with:

/**
     * Create the RemoteWebDriver instance.
     *
     * @return \Facebook\WebDriver\Remote\RemoteWebDriver
     */
    protected function driver()
    {
        $options = (new ChromeOptions)->addArguments([
            '--disable-gpu'
        ]);

        return RemoteWebDriver::create(
            'http://localhost:9515', DesiredCapabilities::chrome()->setCapability(
                ChromeOptions::CAPABILITY, $options
            )
        );
    }

But I only want to disable headless for debugging methods so I wonder if there is any other option like:

php artisan dusk --no-headless or something similar.

Any luck with this? I too am looking for this very thing.

I'm not sure how we would do it as a command argument, but it would be easy enough with an environment/config variable.

I am looking for this too!

just remove '--headless' in drive method @ DuskTestCase.php

@BROWNER12 - Anyone who's curious how this is done, this is how I did it.

.env.dusk.local

DUSK_HEADLESS=false

tests/DuskTestCase.php

$options = (new ChromeOptions)->addArguments([
    '--disable-gpu',
]);

if (env('DUSK_HEADLESS', false)) {
    $options->addArguments([
        '--headless',
    ]);
}

Just change DUSK_HEADLESS in the .env.dusk file to true if you want to see chrome or false if you don't.

One small thing to remember, don't use env() calls in your code. env() should only be called from your config files, and then use the config() call in your code. Otherwise you will run into issues if you try and cache your config values.

for example, in your services.php

'dusk_headless' => env('DUSK_HEADLESS'),

and then in DuskTestCase.php

$options = (new ChromeOptions)->addArguments([
    '--disable-gpu',
    config('dusk_headless') ? '--headless' : '',
]);

For anyone landing here in 2023, using Laravel 10, just add an env variable :

DUSK_HEADLESS_DISABLED=true

Then change your DuskTestCase file's hasHeadlessDisabled function as follows:

protected function hasHeadlessDisabled() : bool
    {
        return env('DUSK_HEADLESS_DISABLED', false);
    }

You will see the browser again. This also helps you not change the DuskTestCase file which you need to change again before committing if you are running your tests in CI.

Make sure to set the value to false in your .env.ci or your GitHub actions secrets.