Hi all - is there a way to get the browser name an...

# javascript

[xxfast]

Hi all - is there a way to get the browser name and version from jsMain?

[rnett]

You mean from Javascript code? There's nothing special from Kotlin, you can use JS's methods but there's nothing great there (see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9847580/how-to-detect-safari-chrome-ie-firefox-and-opera-browser, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5916900/how-can-you-detect-the-version-of-a-browser, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11219582/how-to-detect-my-browser-version-and-operating-system-using-javascript), which can all be translated to Kotlin or use js("code"))

[xxfast]

I see - i noticed we can use kotlin.browser.window type declaration to get userAgent but this string also contains additional information in the UA string. I ended up using platform.js using

dependencies {
   implementation(npm("platform", "1.3.5"))
}

along with some external declarations

@JsModule("platform")
external object Platform {
  val name: String // Chrome
  val version: String // 91.0.4472.77
}

And this worked like a treat 🧁