useUA React Hook

React Hook built on top of UAParser.js library to detect Browser, Engine, OS, CPU, and Device type/model from User-Agent data

• Hook author: Kemal Erdem https://erdem.pl
• UAParse.js author : Faisal Salman <[email protected]>
• Demo : https://faisalman.github.io/ua-parser-js
• Source : https://github.com/burnpiro/use-ua-parser-js

Installation

npm i use-ua-parser-js

Usage

import { useUA } from 'use-ua-parser-js';

const myComponent: FC<Props> = (props) => {
  const UADetails = useUA(); //get current browser data
  [...]
}

Return:

{
  ua: string,
  browser: { name: string, version: string },
  cpu: { architecture: string },
  device: { model: string, type: string, vendor: string },
  engine: { name: string, version: string },
  os: { name: string, version: string }
}

Options

Parse custom userAgent:

import { useUA } from 'use-ua-parser-js';

const customAgent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 5_1_1 like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/534.46.0 (KHTML, like Gecko) CriOS/19.0.1084.60 Mobile/9B206 Safari/7534.48.3';
const myComponent: FC<Props> = (props) => {
  const UADetails = useUA(customAgent);
  [...]
}

Other Hooks

useDevice(uaString?: string):

import { useDevice } from 'use-ua-parser-js';

const myComponent: FC<Props> = (props) => {
  const device = useDevice(); //{ model: string, type: string, vendor: string }
}

useBrowser(uaString?: string):

import { useBrowser } from 'use-ua-parser-js';

const myComponent: FC<Props> = (props) => {
  const browser = useBrowser(); //{ name: string, version: string }
}

useCPU(uaString?: string):

import { useCPU } from 'use-ua-parser-js';

const myComponent: FC<Props> = (props) => {
  const cpu = useCPU(); //{ architecture: string }
}

useEngine(uaString?: string):

import { useEngine } from 'use-ua-parser-js';

const myComponent: FC<Props> = (props) => {
  const engine = useEngine(); //{ name: string, version: string }
}

Helpers

isMobile(device: UAParser.IResult['device']): boolean

import { useDevice, isMobile } from 'use-ua-parser-js';

const myComponent: FC<Props> = (props) => {
  const device = useDevice(); //{ model: string, type: string, vendor: string }
  const isCurrentDeviceMobile = isMobile(device);
}

isTouchDevice(device: UAParser.IResult['device']): boolean

Check if device is either a mobile, tablet or wearable device. Doesn't include "2:1" laptops.

import { useDevice, isTouchDevice } from 'use-ua-parser-js';

const myComponent: FC<Props> = (props) => {
  const device = useDevice(); //{ model: string, type: string, vendor: string }
  const hasTouchScreen = isTouchDevice(device);
}