Chrome 'open tab' reuse an empty tab when possible

packages/react-dev-utils/openChrome.applescript

@@ -7,23 +7,70 @@ This source code is licensed under the BSD-style license found in the
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+property targetTab: null
+property targetTabIndex: -1
+property targetWindow: null
+
 on run argv
   set theURL to item 1 of argv
 
-  tell application "Chrome"
+  tell application "Google Chrome"
 
     if (count every window) = 0 then
       make new window
     end if
 
-    -- Find a tab currently running the debugger
+    -- 1: Looking for tab running debugger
+    -- then, Reload debugging tab if found
+    -- then return
+    set found to my lookupTabWithUrl(theURL)
+    if found then
+      set targetWindow's active tab index to targetTabIndex
+      tell targetTab to reload
+      tell targetWindow to activate
+      set index of targetWindow to 1
+      return
+    end if
+
+    -- 2: Looking for Empty tab
+    -- In case debugging tab was not found
+    -- We try to find an empty tab instead
+    set found to my lookupTabWithUrl("chrome://newtab/")
+    if found then
+      set targetWindow's active tab index to targetTabIndex
+      set URL of targetTab to theURL
+      tell targetWindow to activate
+      return
+    end if
+
+    -- 3: Create new tab
+    -- both debugging and empty tab were not found
+    -- make a new tab with url
+    tell window 1
+      activate
+      make new tab with properties {URL:theURL}
+    end tell
+  end tell
+end run
+
+-- Function:
+-- Lookup tab with given url
+-- if found, store tab, index, and window in properties
+-- (properties were declared on top of file)
+on lookupTabWithUrl(lookupUrl)
+  tell application "Google Chrome"
+    -- Find a tab with the given url
     set found to false
     set theTabIndex to -1
     repeat with theWindow in every window
       set theTabIndex to 0
       repeat with theTab in every tab of theWindow
         set theTabIndex to theTabIndex + 1
-        if theTab's URL as string contains theURL then
+        if (theTab's URL as string) contains lookupUrl then
+          -- assign tab, tab index, and window to properties
+          set targetTab to theTab
+          set targetTabIndex to theTabIndex
+          set targetWindow to theWindow
           set found to true
           exit repeat
         end if
@@ -33,17 +80,6 @@ on run argv
         exit repeat
       end if
     end repeat
-
-    if found then
-      tell theTab to reload
-      set index of theWindow to 1
-      set theWindow's active tab index to theTabIndex
-      tell theWindow to activate
-    else
-      tell window 1
-        activate
-        make new tab with properties {URL:theURL}
-      end tell
-    end if
   end tell
-end run
+  return found
+end lookupTabWithUrl