3 ms·
Ask HN: Building a User-Agent parsing/detection API
Is this a good idea?
- verdverm 6y agoProbably better as a library or middleware. Remote API would likely incur too much latency
- dev-bre 6y agoThanks for the feedback. The downside of having a local library, would be that the actual user agents db and any data used to generate the results would be stored locally. I would say that providing a fast, cloud based API, would simplify the developer experience.
- verdverm 6y agoYou can't build something fast enough It's not about the code, it's about having to make a remote call for every request. This is for something that really doesn't change that much and is sufficiently narrow in possibilities that a library makes a lot of sense. I believe they already exist. Think about how an API service like this relates to GDPR.