I am creating an object to make it easier to access browser/system information by calling a function. One of those functions accesses the operating system name and version and returns a value.
const Sys = { // retrieves the operating system OS: function () { // function body } // other functions... }
I don’t know how to go about getting the information I need. I did find a similar question on Stack Overflow, but it didn’t get the correct information. For example, if I am running on a Windows 10 Pro 32-bit, I want the output to be "Windows 10 Pro 32-bit"
. I’m guessing I have to use the navigator
object, but other than that I really don’t know anything else. Can anyone help with this?
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Answer
I’d recommend using platform.js (see demo).
Identify user’s browser:
platform.os; // => OS X 10.15.6 (in my case)
Or parse a userAgent string.
let info = platform.parse("Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_6) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/14.0.1 Safari/605.1.15"); info.name; // => Safari info.version; // => 14.0.1 info.description; // => Safari 14.0.1 on OS X 10.15.6