browserslist-useragent-regexp

A utility to compile browserslist query to a regex to test browser useragent. Simplest example: you can detect supported browsers on client-side.

1. Create .browserslistrc config, for example like this:

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2. Add script to package.json:

{
  "scripts": {
    "supportedBrowsers": "echo \"export default $(browserslist-useragent-regexp --allowHigherVersions);\" > supportedBrowsers.js"
  }
}

for Windows users

{
  "scripts": {
    "supportedBrowsers": "(echo export default && browserslist-useragent-regexp --allowHigherVersions) > supportedBrowsers.js"
  }
}

3. Run this script, to compile regex:

pnpm supportedBrowsers
# or
npm run supportedBrowsers
# or
yarn supportedBrowsers

supportedBrowsers.js:

export default /Edge?\/(10[5-9]|1[1-9]\d|[2-9]\d\d|\d{4,})(\.\d+|)(\.\d+|)|Firefox\/(10[4-9]|1[1-9]\d|[2-9]\d\d|\d{4,})\.\d+(\.\d+|)|Chrom(ium|e)\/(10[5-9]|1[1-9]\d|[2-9]\d\d|\d{4,})\.\d+(\.\d+|)|Maci.* Version\/(15\.([6-9]|\d{2,})|(1[6-9]|[2-9]\d|\d{3,})\.\d+)([,.]\d+|)( Mobile\/\w+|) Safari\/|Chrome.+OPR\/(9\d|\d{3,})\.\d+\.\d+|(CPU[ +]OS|iPhone[ +]OS|CPU[ +]iPhone|CPU IPhone OS|CPU iPad OS)[ +]+(15[._]([6-9]|\d{2,})|(1[6-9]|[2-9]\d|\d{3,})[._]\d+)([._]\d+|)|Opera Mini|Android:?[ /\-](10[6-9]|1[1-9]\d|[2-9]\d{2}|\d{4,})(\.\d+|)(\.\d+|)|Mobile Safari.+OPR\/(6[4-9]|[7-9]\d|\d{3,})\.\d+\.\d+|Android.+Firefox\/(10[5-9]|1[1-9]\d|[2-9]\d\d|\d{4,})\.\d+(\.\d+|)|Android.+Chrom(ium|e)\/(10[6-9]|1[1-9]\d|[2-9]\d\d|\d{4,})\.\d+(\.\d+|)|Android.+(UC? ?Browser|UCWEB|U3)[ /]?(13\.([4-9]|\d{2,})|(1[4-9]|[2-9]\d|\d{3,})\.\d+)\.\d+|SamsungBrowser\/(1[7-9]|[2-9]\d|\d{3,})\.\d+|Android.+MQQBrowser\/(13(\.([1-9]|\d{2,})|)|(1[4-9]|[2-9]\d|\d{3,})(\.\d+|))(\.\d+|)|K[Aa][Ii]OS\/(2\.([5-9]|\d{2,})|([3-9]|\d{2,})\.\d+)(\.\d+|)/;

4. Import regex from created file:

import supportedBrowsers from './supportedBrowsers.js';

if (supportedBrowsers.test(navigator.userAgent)) {
  alert('Your browser is supported.');
}

Install

pnpm add -D browserslist-useragent-regexp
# or
npm i -D browserslist-useragent-regexp
# or
yarn add -D browserslist-useragent-regexp

Why?

As was written in article "Smart Bundling: Shipping legacy code to only legacy browsers": you can determinate, which bundle you should give to browser from server with browserslist-useragent. But in this case you must have your own server with special logic. Now, with browserslist-useragent-regexp, you can move that to client-side.

Development was inspired by this proposal from Mathias Bynens.

How to make differential resource loading and other optimizations with browserslist-useragent-regexp you can read in article "Speed up with Browserslist".

Demo (sources, build script).

Also, testing useragents using generated regex is faster than using the matchesUA method from browserslist-useragent.

CLI

pnpm browserslist-useragent-regexp [query] [...options]
# or
npx browserslist-useragent-regexp [query] [...options]
# or
yarn exec -- browserslist-useragent-regexp [query] [...options]

Also, short alias is available:

pnpm bluare [query] [...options]

Option	Description	Default
query	Manually provide a browserslist query. Specifying this overrides the browserslist configuration specified in your project.
‑‑help, -h	Print this message.
‑‑verbose, -v	Print additional info about regexes.
‑‑ignorePatch	Ignore differences in patch browser numbers.	true
‑‑ignoreMinor	Ignore differences in minor browser versions.	false
‑‑allowHigherVersions	For all the browsers in the browserslist query, return a match if the useragent version is equal to or higher than the one specified in browserslist.	false
‑‑allowZeroSubversions	Ignore match of patch or patch and minor, if they are 0.	false

JS API basics

Module exposes two main methods:

getUserAgentRegexes(options)

Compile browserslist query to regexes for each browser.

getUserAgentRegex(options)

Compile browserslist query to one regex.

Description of all methods you can find in Documentation.

Options

Option	Type	Default	Description
browsers	string | string[]	—	Manually provide a browserslist query (or an array of queries). Specifying this overrides the browserslist configuration specified in your project.
ignorePatch	boolean	true	Ignore differences in patch browser numbers.
ignoreMinor	boolean	false	Ignore differences in minor browser versions.
allowHigherVersions	boolean	false	For all the browsers in the browserslist query, return a match if the useragent version is equal to or higher than the one specified in browserslist.
allowZeroSubversions	boolean	false	Ignore match of patch or patch and minor, if they are 0.

Any of the browserslist API options may also be provided.

Regex info object

Property	Type	Description
family	string	Browser family.
requestVersions	[number, number, number][]	Versions provided by browserslist.
regex	RegExp	Regex to match useragent with family and versions.
sourceRegex	RegExp	Original useragent regex, without versions.
version	[number, number, number] | null	Useragent version of regex.
minVersion	[number, number, number] | null	Useragent min version of regex.
maxVersion	[number, number, number] | null	Useragent max version of regex.

Other

• Supported browsers
• Notes
• When querying for modern browsers