Looking to hide/show a component in a React/Nextjs/tailwind webapp depending on the device that the user is on (e.g. desktop vs tablet vs mobile) since there are certain keys on the keyboard available for desktop but not on table and mobile (e.g. the tab key). Don't want to do it by screen size since this is a device problem (no tab on keyboard) rather than a screen size problem
Initially I thought about getting device type (code referenced from another stackoverflow Q/A), but this seems to fail when the user is on a device such as an ipad and is using the Desktop version for that browser (e.g. Desktop safari and not mobile safari). Is there a better way to handle this such that it can properly check what device the user is on in order to be able to hide/show the react component?
const getDeviceType = () => {
const ua = navigator.userAgent;
if (/(tablet|ipad|playbook|silk)|(android(?!.*mobi))/i.test(ua)) {
return "tablet";
}
if (
/Mobile|iP(hone|od)|Android|BlackBerry|IEMobile|Kindle|Silk-Accelerated|(hpw|web)OS|Opera M(obi|ini)/.test(
ua
)
) {
return "mobile";
}
return "desktop";
};
In JavaScript you can detect browser with JavaScript using window.navigator
Code example according to https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/navigator would be
var sBrowser, sUsrAg =
navigator.userAgent;
// The order matters here, and this may
report false positives for unlisted
browsers.
if (sUsrAg.indexOf("Firefox") > -1) {
sBrowser = "Mozilla Firefox";
// "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux
x86_64; rv:61.0) Gecko/20100101
Firefox/61.0"
}
alert("You are using: " + sBrowser);
But for react there's another package you can use that is npm install react-device-detect
Code example would be
import { browserName, browserVersion }
from "react-device-detect"
console.log(`${browserName}
${browserVersion}`);
After detecting browser you just conditionally render whatever you want to show