@egjs/agent

What is @egjs/agent?

@egjs/agent is a JavaScript library that provides detailed information about the user's environment, including the browser, operating system, and device. It helps developers tailor their applications based on the user's environment.

What are @egjs/agent's main functionalities?

Detect Browser Information

This feature allows you to detect the browser information of the user, such as the name and version of the browser.

const agent = new eg.Agent();
console.log(agent.browser);

Detect OS Information

This feature allows you to detect the operating system information of the user, including the name and version of the OS.

const agent = new eg.Agent();
console.log(agent.os);

Detect Device Information

This feature allows you to detect the device information of the user, such as whether the device is a mobile, tablet, or desktop.

const agent = new eg.Agent();
console.log(agent.device);

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README

egjs-agent

Extracts browser and operating system information from the user agent string or user agent object(userAgentData).

Documents

• Get Started and Demos
• API documentation
• Prepare for Client Hints, freezing User Agent

Download and Installation

Download dist files from repo directly or install it via npm.

Installation with npm

The following command shows how to install egjs-agent using npm.

$ npm install @egjs/agent

For development

You can download the files for development

• Latest : https://naver.github.io/egjs-agent/release/latest/dist/agent.js
• Latest(min): https://naver.github.io/egjs-agent/release/latest/dist/agent.min.js
• Specific version : https://naver.github.io/egjs-agent/release/[VERSION]/dist/agent.js
• Specific version(min): https://naver.github.io/egjs-agent/release/[VERSION]/dist/agent.min.js

Prepare for Client Hints and User-Agent Reduction!

Chrome was planned to freeze userAgent to improve user privacy, and it is being applied as an experimental feature in 84+.

Not only Chrome, but other browsers will come someday.

It is still an experimental feature until Chrome(Chromium) 86.

If you want to test, enable the flag below.

chrome://flags/#enable-experimental-web-platform-features chrome://flags/#freeze-user-agent

This reduced format will be available for testing via chrome://flags/#reduce-user-agent in Chrome 93. chrome://flags/#reduce-user-agent

User-Agent Reduction Proposed Rollout Plan

Phase 4: Chrome 101 Ship reduced Chrome MINOR.BUILD.PATCH version numbers (“0.0.0”). Once rolled-out, the reduced UA string would apply to all page loads on desktop and mobile OSes that do not opt into the reverse Origin Trial.

Phase 5: Chrome 107 Begin roll-out of reduced Desktop UA string and related JS APIs (navigator.userAgent, navigator.appVersion, navigator.platform). Once rolled-out, the reduced UA string would apply to all page loads on desktop OSes that do not opt into the reverse Origin Trial.

Phase 6: Chrome 110 Begin roll-out of reduced Android Mobile (and Tablet) UA string and related JS APIs. Once rolled-out, the reduced UA string would apply to all page loads on Android that do not opt into the reverse Origin Trial.

Reduction Completion Phase 7: Chrome 113 reverse Origin Trial ends and all page loads receive the reduced UA string and related JS APIs.

In the future

1. the following attribute values will not appear correctly.
   • navigator.userAgent
   • navigator.appVersion
   • navigator.platform
   • navigator.productSub
   • navigator.vendor
2. You should use navigator.userAgentData instead of navigator.userAgent.
   • Browser version only shows major.
   • OS name, OS version, Browser full version should be fetched asynchronously.
   • The only OS name that you can check synchronously are iOS and Android.

Possible (You can know exactly)

• Check browser name, major version
• Check the full version under Chrome 101
• Check mobile
• Check OS name
• Check Webkit, Chromium
• Check old OS, OS Version (Chrome 84 support range or less)
  • < Android 5.0
  • < Mac OS X 10.10
  • < Windows 7
  • < iOS Unknown

import getAgent from "@egjs/agent";

const agent = getAgent();

// Check iOS
agent.os.name === "ios"
agent.os.majorVersion === 9
// Check Android
agent.os.name === "android"
agent.os.majorVersion === 4
parseFloat(agent.os.version) <= 4.4
// Check browser name
agent.browser.name === "safari"
// Check webkit
agent.browser.webkit
// Check chromium
agent.browser.chromium

If you want to use only the method using navigator.userAgent

import { getLegacyAgent } from "@egjs/agent";

const agent = getLegacyAgent();
// Check iOS
agent.os.name === "ios"
agent.os.majorVersion === 9
// Check Android
agent.os.name === "android"
agent.os.majorVersion === 4
parseFloat(agent.os.version) <= 4.4
// Check browser name
agent.browser.name === "safari"
// Check webkit
agent.browser.webkit
// Check chromium
agent.browser.chromium

Not Possible (If synchronous)

• Check OS version.
• Check Browser full version.

import getAgent from "@egjs/agent";
const agent = getAgent();

// If the full version is 10.5, it is displayed as 10.
agent.browser.version
// "unknown"
agent.os.name
// -1
agent.os.majorVersion

Possible (If asynchronous)

• You can get accurate agent information.
• Check OS version.
• Check Browser full version.

import { getAccurateAgent } from "@egjs/agent";

// Use Promise
getAccurateAgent().then(agent => {
    // Check OS version
    agent.os.version

    // Check Browser full verion
    agent.browser.version
});

// Use Callback
getAccurateAgent(agent => {});

If you dare to use synchrous, you have to choose.

• If you're checking a version (ex. 93.0.1234.56) lower than Chrome 101 to fix the bug, there shouldn't be a problem.
• However, if you need to check the minor or patch version of version 101 or higher, you have to check it asynchronously.
• You can check the OS name, but if you want to check the OS version, consider switching to asynchronous before reduction is applied.

Supported Browsers

The following are the supported browsers.

Internet Explorer	Chrome	Firefox	Safari	iOS	Android
7+	latest	latest	latest	3+	2.1+

Client Hints Support

Chromium (Chrome, Edge, Whale)	Gecko (Firefox)	Webkit (Safari)
84+ (Experimental)	Unknown	Unknown

How to start developing egjs-agent?

For anyone interested to develop egjs-agent, follow the instructions below.

Development Environment

1. Clone the repository

Clone the egjs-agent repository and install the dependency modules.

# Clone the repository.
$ git clone https://github.com/naver/egjs-agent.git

2. Install dependencies

npm is supported.

# Install the dependency modules.
$ npm install

3. Build

Use npm script to build eg.agent

# Run rollup
$ npm start

# Build
$ npm run build

# Generate jsdoc
$ npm run jsdoc

Two folders will be created after complete build is completed.

• dist folder: Includes the agent.js and agent.min.js files.
• doc folder: Includes API documentation. The home page for the documentation is doc/index.html.

Linting

To keep the same code style, we adopted ESLint to maintain our code quality. Setup your editor for check or run below command for linting.

$ npm run lint

Test

Once you created a branch and done with development, you must perform a test running npm run test command before you push code to a remote repository.

$ npm run test

Running a npm run test command will start Jest.

Bug Report

If you find a bug, please report it to us using the Issues page on GitHub.

License

egjs-agent is released under the MIT license.

Copyright (c) 2015 NAVER Corp.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
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