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User agent based device type sniffer tablet||mobile||desktop||tv. Based almost wholely on the matching code from the npm package express-device by rguerreiro
var deviceType = require('ua-device-type');
deviceType('Mozilla/5.0 "
+"(Linux; Android 4.1.1; Nexus 7 Build/JRO03S) "
+"AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) "
+"Chrome/18.0.1025.166 Safari/535.19') === "tablet"
// true
deviceType(user agent string, [optional options])
String
options is an object
Special thanks to rguerreiro author of https://github.com/rguerreiro/express-device who tracked down the device matching code from https://github.com/bjankord/Categorizr
I needed to use this without using express. its a small lib so i bundled it up for all to enjoy.
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user agent based device type sniffer tablet||phone||tv||desktop
The npm package ua-device-type receives a total of 120 weekly downloads. As such, ua-device-type popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that ua-device-type 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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