Know your Platform

A small, dependency free library for testing what browser your code is running in.

This is small, dependency free library for testing what browser your code is running in. It is meant to be a simple tool for allowing you to understand what browsers people are using when visiting your website. It is NOT meant for writing browser specific code. You should be using feature detection, polyfills, and @support queries if that is your use case.

Installing

This can be installed using npm:

npm install know-your-platform

Using

import { getBrowser } from 'know-your-platform';

getBrowser(navigator.userAgent);
// -> "<BROWSER_NAME>"

Methods

• #getBrowser.

  Takes a user agent string and returns a string name representing the browser. Possible return values include: FIREFOX, CHROME, EDGE, SAFARI, OTHER.

  This does not return browser version numbers. Browsers that it does not know about are returned as OTHER. Note that Internet Explorer is returned as OTHER.

Running tests

Tests can be run using

pnpm test

License

This software is distributed under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for a copy.