Habitat.js

Author: Austin K. Smith

Website: Github

Description: 100% Vanilla Javascript Automatic Environment Detection Library

License: Artistic License 2.0

About

A collection of useful cross platform environmental detection methods, originally written for use with Hamsters.js now moved into it's own package for reusability.

Install

• Add Habitat.js to your project using the instructions below

HTML

• Download a copy of the library and add it to your webserver public directory
• Add script tag to your html page

  <!-- HTML4 and (x)HTML -->
  <script type="text/javascript" src="path/to/habitat.web.min.js">

  <!-- HTML5 -->
  <script src="path/to/habitat.web.min.js"></script>

Node

• Use npm install to add the project to your dependencies npm install --save habitat
• Require the npm module in your app.js file

  var habitat = require('habitat.js');

Once you've installed Habitat.js you should now be able to run the following methods.

• isIE - Determine if execution environment is Internet Explorer by version.

var version = 10;
habitat.isIE(version); // true or false

• logicalThreads - Determine number of logical threads available, Node.js or Web detection. (Respects Firefox per origin limit of 20)

habitat.logicalThreads(); // integer

• blob - Detects execution environments data blob builder, supports all vendor prefixes.

var blobMaker = habitat.blob(); // constructor
new blobMaker(...);

• browser - Determine if execution environment is a web browser.

habitat.browser(); // true or false

• webWorker - Determine if execution environment is a webWorker.

habitat.webWorker(); // true or false

• node - Determine if execution environment is Node.js.

habitat.node(); // true or false

• reactNative - Determine if execution environment is reactNative.

habitat.reactNative(); // true or false

• shell - Determine if execution environment is a shell.

habitat.shell(); // true or false

• transferrable - Determine if execution environment supports transferrable objects (typed arrays).

habitat.transferrable(); // true or false

• atomics - Determine if execution environment supports atomic operations (shared array buffers).

habitat.atomics(); // true or false

• proxies - Determine if execution environment supports proxy objects.

habitat.proxies(); // true or false

• sharedWorkers - Determine if execution environment supports sharedWorkers

habitat.sharedWorkers(); // true or false