Detecting the device type when an angular universal app pre-rendered on the server

Question

I'm using ngx-device-detector library for detecting the device type (mobile, tablet or desktop). This library working perfectly in client mode but can't detect the device type when an angular universal application pre-rendered on the server(after prerendering on the server, working perfectly on client mode).

1. I appreciate if someone gives me a solution that works for this library
2. Eventually, if there isn't any solution for this library, give me another solution

Thanks.

Answer 1

I had a quick look at the code and I think you can call setDeviceInfo with a user agent string that you can retrieve from the request headers

app.module.ts

import {Request} from 'express';
import {REQUEST} from '@nguniversal/express-engine/tokens';

constructor(@Inject(PLATFORM_ID) private platformId, 
            @Optional() @Inject(REQUEST) protected request: Request,
            private deviceService: DeviceDetectorService)
{
    if(!isPlatformBrowser(platformId))
    {
        this.deviceService.setDeviceInfo(request.headers['user-agent']);
    }
}