Usage in apps with SSR (server-side rendering)

Could the detectBrowser function be exported so it could be manually called in a server-side environment?

That way a user agent from a client request could be passed to the detectBrowser function and the resulting detected information could be used on the server before anything is even sent to the client.

I also think it would be a good idea to unify exports into a single file like was requested in #41 for those of us with Node-based projects who use build systems like webpack but not browserify. Couldn’t both options be supported by keeping the browser.js file but adding logic to index.js?

Maybe something like:

var detectBrowser = require('./lib/detectBrowser');

var isClient = !!(typeof window !== 'undefined' && window.document && window.document.createElement)

if (isClient) {
  var agent;
  if (typeof navigator !== 'undefined' && navigator) {
    agent = navigator.userAgent;
  }

  module.exports = detectBrowser(agent);
  module.exports.detectBrowser = null;
} else {
  module.exports.name = 'node';
  module.exports.version = process.version.slice(1);
  module.exports.detectBrowser = detectBrowser;
}

Note that I haven’t test the above, so I can’t guarantee there aren’t issues/errors. Just an idea.

[DamonOehlman]

@dlong500 This is the kind of thing I have started to implement in #46. I just need to rebase this on some recent changes that @5punk has implemented for OS detection and we can look at getting this through.

[5punk]

Closing due to inactivity. Possibly already solved.