Test whether you're running on the server or in the browser (using browserify)
$ npm install is-browser
This simply exports true or false:
if (require('is-browser')) {
console.log('The module was installed using component');
} else {
console.log('The module was installed using npm');
}
MIT
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Test whether you're a component in browser or a package in npm
The npm package is-browser receives a total of 256,228 weekly downloads. As such, is-browser popularity was classified as popular.
We found that is-browser 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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