browser-common

Small, tree-shakeable TypeScript wrappers around 40+ browser Web APIs.

app.ts

import {
  isClipboardApiAvailable,
  copyToClipboard,
} from '@rtorcato/browser-common/clipboard'

if (isClipboardApiAvailable()) {
  await copyToClipboard('hello world')
}

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npm install @rtorcato/browser-common

Tiny per-module imports

146–257 B brotlied per subpath. Tree-shake to just the bytes you use.

Safe by default

Every module exports `is<Name>Available()`. Operations never throw on unsupported runtimes.

TypeScript-first

Strict types, generics preserved, JSDoc-rich in your IDE. Zero runtime dependencies.

44 Web APIs covered

One subpath per spec — clipboard, geolocation, storage, observers, and 40 more.

One subpath per Web API

Eight focused categories. 44 modules. Import exactly what you need.

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Storage

4 modules

Local, session, cookies, and the File System Access API.

localstoragesessionstoragecookiesfilesystem

Sensors

7 modules

Battery, geolocation, motion, orientation, idle and screen state.

batterygeolocationmotionorientation

Input

8 modules

Clipboard, drag-and-drop, focus, forms, keyboard, pointer and touch.

clipboardkeyboardpointereventstouchevents

Media

5 modules

Canvas, HTML media, devices, vibration and web-share.

canvashtmlmediamediadeviceswebshare

DOM & Navigation

6 modules

DOM helpers, fullscreen, iframe, history, location and window.

domfullscreenhistorywindow

Observers

4 modules

IntersectionObserver, MutationObserver, ResizeObserver and PerformanceObserver.

intersectionmutationobserverresizeobserverperformance

Background

4 modules

Background tasks, service workers, web locks and WebSockets.

backgroundtasksserviceworkersweblockswebsockets

Notifications & UI

6 modules

Alerts, notifications, print, encoding, permissions and shared helpers.

notificationsprintpermissionsalert

Sibling projects

More from @rtorcato — same conventions, same release pipeline.

@rtorcato/js-common

Docs ↗

Tree-shakeable TypeScript utilities — tiny bundles, full type safety, CLI included.

@rtorcato/js-tooling

Docs ↗

Shared Biome, TypeScript, Vitest and semantic-release presets that power the @rtorcato/* family.

rtorcato/swift-common

GitHub ↗

Common Swift utilities — the Apple-platform sibling of js-common and browser-common.