Check if the internet connection is up
Works in Node.js and the browser (with a bundler).
In the browser, there is already navigator.onLine, but it's useless as it only tells you if there's a local connection, and not whether the internet is accessible.
npm install is-online
import isOnline from 'is-online';
console.log(await isOnline());
//=> true
Type: object
Type: number
Default: 5000
Milliseconds to wait for a server to respond.
Type: number
Values: 4 | 6
Default: 4
The Internet Protocol version to use.
This is an advanced option that is usually not necessary to be set, but it can prove useful to specifically assert IPv6 connectivity.
The following checks are run in parallel:
myip.opendns.com and o-o.myaddr.l.google.com DNS entries. (Node.js only)When any check succeeds, the returned Promise is resolved to true.
To make it work through proxies, you need to set up global-agent.
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Check if the internet connection is up
The npm package is-online receives a total of 80,518 weekly downloads. As such, is-online popularity was classified as popular.
We found that is-online demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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