platform-detect
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🃏 Minimalistic isomorphic library for detection of platform, runtime, APIs and more.
🃏 Minimalistic isomorphic library for detection of platform, runtime, APIs and more.
Detects Browsers, Node, Electron, NW.JS, PWA, UWP, Web workers and child processes.
npm install platform-detect
import platform from 'platform-detect'
// The script has no window or GUI to render content to.
// It only runs in console / terminal. (Might be a Node script or WebWorker)
platform.console
// App has a window, access to DOM. Can render GUI.
platform.window
// Fully functional Node & core modules are available. (Might be an Electron / NWJ.JS app or a Node console script)
platform.node
// App has been loaded as a plain website in a browser.
platform.web
// Script is executed inside Web Worker.
platform.worker
// App has been loaded as a PWA / UWP / Electron / NW.JS / Cordova app
platform.pwa
platform.uwp
platform.electron
platform.nwjs
platform.cordova
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🃏 Minimalistic isomorphic library for detection of platform, runtime, APIs and more.
The npm package platform-detect receives a total of 8,779 weekly downloads. As such, platform-detect popularity was classified as popular.
We found that platform-detect 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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