Network Information Api polyfill

An attempt to create polyfill for this specification. Polyfill is based on pinging some url and latency analysis. These are pretty rough measurements. But better than nothing.

Usage

npm i -S network-information-api-polyfill

or just

<script src="dist/main.js"></script>

Then you need to initialize it

new NetworkInformationApiPolyfill().then(connection => {
    console.log(connection); // or navigator.connection
 
    connection.addEventListener('change', e => {
        console.log('change', e);
    });
});

Polyfill must do the first request, to get information about network. So you can't use it synchronously, only using promise.

Configuring

You can pass options during initialization:

new NetworkInformationApiPolyfill({
    // here
});

pingMaxTimeout

Type: number
Default: 5000

Timeout of request. After this time, the network will be considered unavailable (navigator.connection.type === 'none).

pingFrequency

Type: number
Default: 6000

A frequency of pinging.

pingUrl

Type: string Default: ${location.protocol}//network-information-api.surge.sh/1b.txt

An url, that will be pinged. It is strongly recommended to have your own address. It improves the accuracy of measurements in relation to the user of your service.

CSP rules

If you have CSP rules, and you don't want own pingUrl, you must add url network-information-api.surge.sh to rule connect-src.