react-device-context

ReactJS Context to detect current device details

Description

react-device-context is a ReactJS context module for exposing User Agent details to be accesible around the application.

Installation

npm install react-device-context

Usage

First, you must wrap your application root component with the DeviceContextProvider

import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import { DeviceContextProvider } from 'react-device-context';
 
const App = (): JSX.Element => (
  <DeviceContextProvider>
    {/* Other Components */}
  </DeviceContextProvider>
);
 
ReactDOM.render(
  <App />,
  document.getElementById('app')
);

When your application is wrapped with the DeviceContextProvider, you will be able to consume the API.

API

• Types
  • type Browser
  • type DeviceFormat
• Hooks
  • useCurrentBrowser
  • useCurrentFormat
  • useDeviceContext
  • useIsMobile
• Providers
  • DeviceContextProvider

type Browser

The browser type enumerates the browsers supported by this module. Currently the module supports the following browsers:

Browser	Value
Chrome	'Chrome'
Edge	'Edge'
Edge Multiplatform	'EdgeChromium'
Firefox	'Firefox'
Internet Explorer	'IE'
Opera	'Opera'
Safari	'Safari'

Supported browsers with its corresponding value from the Browser type.

import React from 'react';
import { useCurrentBrowser } from 'react-device-context';
 
function App(): JSX.Element {
  const currentBrowser = useCurrentBrowser();
 
  if (currentBrowser === 'Firefox') {
    return <p>You are on firefox</p>;
  } else {
    return <p>{ currentBrowser }</p>;
  }
}

DeviceFormat

DeviceFormat refers to the device type. Current supported devices are Desktop and Mobile.

Hooks

useCurrentBrowser() => Browser | null

useCurrentBrowser hook returns the current browser as a Browser type value if the browser is supported. Otherwise returns null.

useCurrentFormat() => DeviceFormat | null

useCurrentFormat hook returns the current device format as a Format type value.

useDeviceContext() => Context<IDeviceContext>

useDeviceContext exposes the DeviceContext interface. The DeviceContext interface has only one member which is the deviceProfile, which is used by useCurrentBrowser and useCurrentFormat under the hood.

deviceProfile implements the DeviceProfile interface which has the following members:

Property	Type
format	DeviceFormat | null
browser	Browser | null

useIsMobile() => boolean

A hook that returns true if the current instance is running in a mobile device, otherwise returns false.

Providers

<DeviceContextProvider>

The DeviceContextProvider is the provider for the main context of this module, its recommended to wrap your application with this provider in order to consume the API.

Contributions

Any contribution is welcome, feel free to open an issue or a pull request. A changelog is beign kept in order to keep track of every change for each release, refer to keep-a-changelog for guiderlines.

License

Licensed under the MIT License.