Last week I scratched my own itch (again) and built a (offline!) command line tool for “CanIUse …” and MDN’s browser-compat-data.
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Installation and UsageYou can install @bramus/caniuse-cli through NPM (or whatever package manager you are using).
npm i -g @bramus/caniuse-cli
Once installed, you can call caniuse on the command line. The passed in argument is your search term.
caniuse viewport-units
The package differs from other attempts at this by not only using caniuse-db but by also integrating @mdn/browser-compat-data. That means you can also query for things like the upcoming calc-size() or @property.
caniuse calc-size
caniuse @property
Because both datasets are stored locally, @bramus/caniuse-cli requires no live internet connection once installed.
Furthermore it also collapses the releases in the output table, just like the “CanIUse …” website does it.
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Source codeThe source code is available on GitHub. PRs very welcome as this was thrown together in a jiffy, hacking on the original by @dsenkus.
One area I am specifically looking help for, is a way to provide an auto-update mechanism for the datasets. I think I have a solution for this, but I’m sure it could be done better – especially because my approach is limited to Node’s npm only.
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I scratched my own itch (again) and built a @caniuse CLI tool.
It differs from other attempts at this by also integrating @MozDevNet’s browser-compat-data + collapsing releases in the table (just like the website does).
⌨️npm i -g @bramus/caniuse-cli
🔗 https://t.co/Ocp3t9erEz pic.twitter.com/Ly6SPNkgKo— Bramus (@bramus) September 9, 2024
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