open remote machine's localhost server

openLocalhost.sh

# This script is to open localhost server from a local browser, 
# it has a default-machine.local and :3000 as default port, both
# can be passed as arguments. On execution, it will open the target
# remote machine's localhost server in a Chrome tab.

# USAGE: ./openLocalhost.sh <machine_name> <port_number>

#!/bin/sh

# Uppercase user input for machine name, or use default:
TARGET="$(awk '{print toupper($0)}' <<< $1)"
if [ "$TARGET" = "" ] ; then
    echo "no target specified, running default: xxx"
    TARGET="XXX"
fi

# parse machine name in url:
URL="http://$TARGET.local:3000"

# check if port is specified:
if [ "$2" != "" ]; then
    URL="http://$TARGET.local:$2"
fi

open -a "Google Chrome" $URL