Client-side support

[elessarperm]

Hi! I have a problem with running your lib on client side. I need to detect if current browser is supported or not and notify the user if not.
I've tried to compile it with webpack but one of it's dependencies uses native node.js modules (to be more specific it's useragent) and it either not compile or takes a lot of unnecessary code to the bundle. Do you have any workaround how to use your lib in browser? Maybe I'm doing something wrong.

Thanks.

[GabrielDelepine]

I guess some dependencies of this project require Node.
It can be interesting to know which one to make it optional

But this repo needs a huge list of browsers to work, I would be worried about the size of the file

Maybe what you are looking for is something like a feature detection package

[elessarperm]

Feature detection is great but our use-case is to just inform customers that we didn't test our product in their browser yet

[hwclass]

Hi guys,

I've tried to run it in a client application bundled via browserify and got the following:

[GabrielDelepine]

this project is not thinked to be executed client side so I wouldn't be supprise if it fails.

if your files-server is built in Node （with express for example）, you can run this project server side for choosing different html template based on the browser user's agent

[vidal7]

Including browserlist-useragent in the webpack's bundle adds 400kb gzipped and almost 3mb unzipped. It is definitely not thinked to be executed client side.

[pastelsky]

This is a issue in an dependency - useragent. It's being tracked here - 3rd-Eden/useragent#129

[piranna]

I think ideal solution would be to have the browsers list generated on build time from the actual browserslist config as a JSON, and later a runtime module that checks that list with the running browser useragent.

It's not directly related to browserslist itself but a couple of helper packages, one a webpack plugin and another a browser checker. Not sure if they could be combined somehow, but probably they could be hosted under browserslist github organization.

[mizdra]

FYI: browserslist-useragent-regexp can generate code to determine if a UA matches. Since this code consists of just a regular expression, it is universal and works in browsers. In addition, it does not include the code for the .browserslist parser, so the bundle size is very small. This makes it very suitable for use in a browser. Maybe this tool will solve your problem.