https://github.com/iliakan/detect-node

Detect Node.JS
https://github.com/iliakan/detect-node

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Detect Node.JS

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/iliakan/detect-node
• Owner: iliakan
• License: mit
• Created: 2014-07-31T10:15:27.000Z (almost 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-05-10T23:29:32.000Z (about 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-05-09T12:58:10.593Z (about 2 months ago)
• Language: JavaScript
• Size: 10.7 KB
• Stars: 81
• Watchers: 5
• Forks: 16
• Open Issues: 3
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: Readme.md
  • License: LICENSE

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• awesome-node-utils - detect-node - Detect Node.JS (as opposite to browser environment) (reliable) (Uncategorized / Uncategorized)

README

        
### Install

```shell

npm install --save detect-node

```

### Usage:

```js

var isNode = require('detect-node');

if (isNode) {

  console.log("Running under Node.JS");

} else {

  alert("Hello from browser (or whatever not-a-node env)");

}

```

The check is performed as:

```js

module.exports = false;

// Only Node.JS has a process variable that is of [[Class]] process

try {

 module.exports = Object.prototype.toString.call(global.process) === '[object process]' 

} catch(e) {}

```

Thanks to Ingvar Stepanyan for the initial idea. This check is both **the most reliable I could find** and it does not use `process` env directly, which would cause browserify to include it into the build.