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 am not totally familiar with the Node environment and all its situations such as when Babel or WebPack is being used. But this is one way if you have code that runs in the browser vs in the Node console:

if (this.window) {
  // inside browser

} else {
  // inside Node

}