bowser VS ua-parser-js

Compare bowser vs ua-parser-js and see what are their differences.

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bowser ua-parser-js
2 29
5,410 8,588
0.5% -
6.3 8.4
3 months ago about 1 month ago
JavaScript JavaScript
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
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bowser

Posts with mentions or reviews of bowser. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-08.

ua-parser-js

Posts with mentions or reviews of ua-parser-js. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-20.
  • Tell HN: Microsoft Teams is blocking Firefox Nightly
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Mar 2023
    Just look at all the big companies doing it

    https://faisalman.github.io/ua-parser-js/

  • Liguard - The Linode Guard
    4 projects | dev.to | 20 Feb 2023
    This project is backed under MIT License, special shout out to project UA-Parser, as liguard uses a piece of its source-code.
  • Modern PHP
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Mar 2022
    With NPM, what's actually published is not what's in the git repo, so it's harder to inspect/review vulnerabilities or hijacking. With composer, what's in git _is_ what composer pulls (with the exception of rules in .gitattributes to exclude files etc), making it much easier to trace. One such example: https://github.com/faisalman/ua-parser-js/issues/536

    Composer packages are vendor namespaced, so hijacking an abandoned package is not possible (and it is with NPM), some examples like https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/10/github_npm_package/

  • Some developers are fouling up open-source software
    1 project | /r/linux | 25 Mar 2022
    Sure, I suppose in theory it could happen with other ecosystems, but for some reason it doesn't. It sure seems to just keep happening in NPM though.
  • Vulnerable and Outdated Components
    1 project | /r/reactjs | 9 Jan 2022
    From the other side, npm package may be hijacked(as it happened recently for ua-parser-js and to other packages earlier). To mitigate that, I don't know, probably, subscribing to some security digest would be the most helpful.
  • Red Hat response to Java release cadence change
    1 project | /r/java | 7 Dec 2021
  • Secure software supply chain: why every link matters
    3 projects | dev.to | 16 Nov 2021
    On Oct. 22, 2021, developers of a very common NPM package, ua-parser-js, discovered that some attackers uploaded a compromised version of the package containing malware for Linux and Windows, and were capable of stealing data (at least passwords and cookies from the browser).
  • Thoughts on improving security of Neovim plugins
    7 projects | /r/neovim | 15 Nov 2021
    Since Neovim 0.5 release (which has full Lua support) I see more and more amazing Lua plugins being developed, and I think this trend will likely to continue. But I recently got more concerned about security risks associated with the way Neovim plugins being installed and used (especially after seeing recent compromises like ua-parser-js or coa). Installing typical Neovim plugin is basically downloading and executing random code from the internet on your machine with your user privileges, so hijacked or deliberately malicious plugin could potentially do a lot of damage (like stealing keys/passwords, installing keylogger or just rm -rf / for fun).
  • Hidden XMRig miner malware discovered in hijacked versions of popular ua-parser-js npm library
    1 project | /r/Monero | 24 Oct 2021
    thread about compromise https://github.com/faisalman/ua-parser-js/issues/536
  • Malware Discovered in Popular NPM Package, ua-parser-js
    1 project | /r/cybersecurity | 23 Oct 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing bowser and ua-parser-js you can also consider the following projects:

detectOS.js - A simple definition of the popular OS and browsers on JavaScript.

react-device-detect - Detect device, and render view according to detected device type.

remarkable - Markdown parser, done right. Commonmark support, extensions, syntax plugins, high speed - all in one. Gulp and metalsmith plugins available. Used by Facebook, Docusaurus and many others! Use https://github.com/breakdance/breakdance for HTML-to-markdown conversion. Use https://github.com/jonschlinkert/markdown-toc to generate a table of contents.

debug - A tiny JavaScript debugging utility modelled after Node.js core's debugging technique. Works in Node.js and web browsers

enquirer - Stylish, intuitive and user-friendly prompts, for Node.js. Used by eslint, webpack, yarn, pm2, pnpm, RedwoodJS, FactorJS, salesforce, Cypress, Google Lighthouse, Generate, tencent cloudbase, lint-staged, gluegun, hygen, hardhat, AWS Amplify, GitHub Actions Toolkit, @airbnb/nimbus, and many others! Please follow Enquirer's author: https://github.com/jonschlinkert

detect-inapp - detect browser or in-app information for mobile

Serilog - Simple .NET logging with fully-structured events

browserify - browser-side require() the node.js way

pnpm - Fast, disk space efficient package manager

eruda - Console for mobile browsers

Fluent Assertions - A very extensive set of extension methods that allow you to more naturally specify the expected outcome of a TDD or BDD-style unit tests. Targets .NET Framework 4.7, as well as .NET Core 2.1, .NET Core 3.0, .NET 6, .NET Standard 2.0 and 2.1. Supports the unit test frameworks MSTest2, NUnit3, XUnit2, MSpec, and NSpec3.