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detect-os

v1.2.1

Published

Detect current running OS including version and codename.

Downloads

898

Readme

Detect OS in Javascript

CI JavaScript Style Guide Project Status: Active – The project has reached a stable, usable state and is being actively developed. GitHub

Detect current running OS including version and arch, if possible. No dependencies. All code < 300 lines.

This is just a minimal, simple and incomplete package to detect the following:

  • os - Android, Windows, OSX, Linux etc. or undefined for unknown
  • isMobile - true if a mobile OS, otherwise false
  • name - For example "Ubuntu" when OS is "Linux" or undefined
  • arch - 32, 64 or undefined
  • ram - if navigator.deviceMemory is available or undefined

Uses mainly navigator.platform and navigator.userAgent as second guess for detection.

No legacy support yet, no support for OS-minorites yet. Feel free to contribute!

Why not use feature detection instead?

Yes we all know this is the better option. However, this package intends to detect the OS and not the browser, so feature detection won't help that much.

There are more distinct ways of detecting the OS based on certain ways of feature implementation and results but that won't be covered by this package (yet).

License

MIT, see license