Environment detection: node.js or browser

Question

I\'m developping a JS-app that needs to work both on the client side and the server side (in Javascript on a browser and in Node.js), and I would like to be able to reuse th

Answer 1

I know this is a late answer to a (1.5 year) old question but why not copy jQuery's source code?

if (typeof module === "object" && typeof module.exports === "object") {
  // node
}

if (typeof window !== "undefined" && typeof window.document !== "undefined") {
  // browser
}

Good luck.