react-device-detect

What is react-device-detect?

The react-device-detect package is a tool for detecting device types and browser environments in a React application. It provides a set of hooks and components that allow developers to render content conditionally based on the user's device type, operating system, browser, and other device-specific characteristics.

What are react-device-detect's main functionalities?

Device Type Detection

Detects the type of device (mobile, tablet, desktop) and allows you to render content conditionally based on the device type.

import { isMobile, isTablet, isDesktop } from 'react-device-detect';

function MyComponent() {
  return (
    <div>
      {isMobile && <p>This is a mobile device.</p>}
      {isTablet && <p>This is a tablet device.</p>}
      {isDesktop && <p>This is a desktop device.</p>}
    </div>
  );
}

Browser Detection

Determines the browser being used (e.g., Chrome, Firefox) and enables conditional rendering of components or content for specific browsers.

import { isChrome, isFirefox } from 'react-device-detect';

function MyComponent() {
  return (
    <div>
      {isChrome && <p>This is viewed in Chrome.</p>}
      {isFirefox && <p>This is viewed in Firefox.</p>}
    </div>
  );
}

Operating System Detection

Identifies the operating system of the user's device (e.g., Android, iOS) and allows for OS-specific content or functionality.

import { isAndroid, isIOS } from 'react-device-detect';

function MyComponent() {
  return (
    <div>
      {isAndroid && <p>This is an Android device.</p>}
      {isIOS && <p>This is an iOS device.</p>}
    </div>
  );
}

Custom Hooks

Provides custom hooks that return an object with device detection booleans, allowing for more dynamic and custom implementations.

import { useDeviceDetect } from 'react-device-detect';

function MyComponent() {
  const { isMobile, isDesktop } = useDeviceDetect();
  return (
    <div>
      {isMobile && <p>Content for mobile</p>}
      {isDesktop && <p>Content for desktop</p>}
    </div>
  );
}

Other packages similar to react-device-detect

mobile-detect

A package similar to react-device-detect that offers detailed mobile device detection, including phone/tablet detection, and can parse user-agent strings. It does not provide React-specific hooks or components.

ua-parser-js

This package is used for user-agent string parsing to identify browser, engine, OS, CPU, and device type/model. It is more general-purpose and not React-specific, unlike react-device-detect which provides React components and hooks.

react-responsive

A package that allows for the creation of responsive design in React applications using media queries. It is similar to react-device-detect in providing conditional rendering based on device characteristics but focuses more on responsive design rather than device detection.

README

react-device-detect

Detect device, and render view according to detected device type.

Installation

To install, you can use npm or yarn:

npm install react-device-detect --save

or

yarn add react-device-detect

Usage

Example:

import {
  BrowserView,
  MobileView,
  isBrowser,
  isMobile
} from "react-device-detect";

<BrowserView>
    <h1> This is rendered only in browser </h1>
</BrowserView>
<MobileView>
    <h1> This is rendered only on mobile </h1>
</MobileView>

if you don't need a view, you can use isMobile for conditional rendering

import {isMobile} from 'react-device-detect';

renderContent = () => {
    if (isMobile) {
        return <div> This content is unavailable on mobile</div>
    }
    return <div> ...content </div>
}

render() {
    return this.renderContent();
}

If you want to leave a message to specific browser (e.g IE), you can use isIE selector

import {isIE} from 'react-device-detect';

render() {
    if (isIE) return <div> IE is not supported. Download Chrome/Opera/Firefox </div>
    return (
        <div>...content</div>
    )
}

If you want to render a view on specific device and with specific condition:

import { browserName, CustomView } from 'react-device-detect';

render() {
    return (
        <CustomView condition={browserName === "Chrome"}>
            <div>...content</div>
        </CustomView>
    )
}

Style the view

Yoa can style view component by passing class to viewClassName prop

<BrowserView viewClassName='custom-class'>
    <p> View content </p>
</BrowserView>

or you can pass inline styles to style prop

const styles = {
  background: "red",
  fontSize: "24px",
  lineHeight: "2"
};

<BrowserView style={styles}>
    <p> View content</p>
</BrowserView>

Selectors and views

Selectors

prop	type	description
isMobile	bool	returns true if device type is mobile or tablet
isMobileOnly	bool	returns true if device type is mobile
isTablet	bool	returns true if device type is tablet
isBrowser	bool	returns true if device type is browser
isSmartTV	bool	returns true if device type is smarttv
isWearable	bool	returns true if device type is wearable
isConsole	bool	returns true if device type is console
isAndroid	bool	returns true if os type is Android
isWinPhone	bool	returns true if os type is Windows Phone
isIOS	bool	returns true if os type is iOS
isChrome	bool	returns true if browser is Chrome
isFirefox	bool	returns true if browser is Firefox
isSafari	bool	returns true if browser is Safari
isOpera	bool	returns true if browser is Opera
isIE	bool	returns true if browser is Internet Explorer
isEdge	bool	returns true if browser is Edge
isYandex	bool	returns true if browser is Yandex
isChromium	bool	returns true if browser is Chromium
isMobileSafari	bool	returns true if browser is Mobile Safari
osVersion	string	returns os version (e.g 7 for Windows or 6 for Android)
osName	string	returns os name (e.g Windows, Android)
fullBrowserVersion	string	returns full browser version (e.g 65.0.3325.181 for Chrome)
browserVersion	string	returns browser major version (e.g 65 in Chrome or 9 in IE)
browserName	string	returns browser name
mobileVendor	string	returns mobile device vendor (e.g LG, iPhone etc)
mobileModel	string	returns mobile device model (e.g Nexus 5)
engineName	string	returns browser engine name (e.g Gecko for FF or WebKit for Chrome)
engineVersion	string	returns engine version
getUA	string	returns user agent
deviceType	string	returns device type (e.g mobile or tablet)
deviceDetect	function	return data object which includes all data about device (e.g version, engine, os etc.)

Views

Available views:

• MobileView
• BrowserView
• TabletView
• AndroidView
• IOSView
• IEView
• WinPhoneView
• MobileOnlyView
• SmartTVView
• ConsoleView
• WearableView
• CustomView -- has condition prop which takes any expression which results into boolean (e.g browserName === 'Chrome')

Each view accepts three props:

1. viewClassName - to style the view
2. style - to add inline styles to view
3. children - to pass children to view
4. renderWithFragment - render with React.Fragment instead of <div>

License

MIT