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device-detector
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Simple tool for detecting device info in Node.js and web browsers. Support almost popular browsers and bots.
npm install device-detector
And then:
var DeviceDetector = require('device-detector');
Assuming there is a file device-detector.min.js located at "/public/js/lib/", the following ways can be used to include DeviceDetector:
System.config({
baseURL: '/public/js/lib',
map: {
DeviceDetector: 'device-detector.min'
}
});
System.import('DeviceDetector').then(function(DeviceDetector){
console.log(DeviceDetector.info);
});
require.config({
baseUrl: '/public/js/lib',
paths: {
DeviceDetector: 'device-detector.min'
}
});
requirejs('DeviceDetector', function(DeviceDetector){
console.log(DeviceDetector.info);
});
<script type="text/javascript" src="/public/js/lib/device-detector.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
console.log(DeviceDetector.info);
</script>
DeviceDetector provides just one method named "parse".
DeviceDetector.parse([userAgent]);
The only parameter "userAgent" is optional in web browser, but required in Node.js environment.
For example:
var ua = 'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)';
var deviceInfo = DeviceDetector.parse(ua);
deviceInfo is an object looks like this:
{
type: 'Bot',
browser: '',
engine: 'Googlebot',
version: '2.1',
os: ''
}
Another example, you can see how it will be used with ExpressJS and morgan to show shorter logs:
var express = require('express');
var morgan = require('morgan');
var DeviceDetector = require('device-detector');
var app = express();
morgan.token('navigator', function(req, res){
var ua = req.headers['user-agent'];
var d = DeviceDetector.parse(ua);
if(d){
if(d.type === 'Bot'){
return d.engine + ' ' + d.version;
}
return (d.browser + ' ' + d.version) + ', ' + (d.os + ' ' + d.type);
}
return 'Unknown device';
});
app.use(morgan(':method :url :status - :res[content-length] bytes :response-time ms - :navigator - [:date[web]]'));
Logging result:
GET /bookings 200 - 23324 bytes 1380.019 ms - Chrome 45.0.2454.93, Linux Desktop - [Wed, 23 Sep 2015 12:54:11 GMT]
GET /notifications 200 - 1757 bytes 29.730 ms - Chrome 45.0.2454.93, Linux Desktop - [Wed, 23 Sep 2015 12:54:12 GMT]
GET /profile 200 - 33805 bytes 619.092 ms - Chrome 45.0.2454.93, Linux Desktop - [Wed, 23 Sep 2015 12:54:20 GMT]
...
In the browsers, this method automatically executes and its result - current browser info - is being set to DeviceDetector.info property.
Also, if you don't pass "userAgent" parameter while calling "parse" method, it will return DeviceDetector.info instead of parsing again.
git clone https://github.com/ndaidong/device-detector.git
cd device-detector
npm install
mocha
Make sure Mocha is already and check the specs under /test folder.
Apache License
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Detect device info on Node.js and Browser
The npm package device-detector receives a total of 646 weekly downloads. As such, device-detector popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that device-detector demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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