What is Modernizr?
It’s a collection of superfast tests or detects as we like to call them which run as your web page loads, then you can use the results to tailor the experience to the user. It tells you what HTML, CSS and JavaScript features the user’s browser has to offer.
Modernizr is a tool in the Javascript Utilities & Libraries category of a tech stack.
Modernizr is an open source tool with 25.7K GitHub stars and 3K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Modernizr's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Modernizr?
Companies
24392 companies reportedly use Modernizr in their tech stacks, including LinkedIn, Snapchat, and Hdbest.net.
Developers
2802 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Modernizr.
Modernizr Integrations
Modernizr's Features
- Easy to deliver tiered experiences
- Make use of the latest and greatest features in browsers
- Without leaving less fortunate users high and dry.
Modernizr Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Modernizr?
Babel
Babel will turn your ES6+ code into ES5 friendly code, so you can start using it right now without waiting for browser support.
Bootstrap
Bootstrap is the most popular HTML, CSS, and JS framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web.
jQuery
jQuery is a cross-platform JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML.
React
Lots of people use React as the V in MVC. Since React makes no assumptions about the rest of your technology stack, it's easy to try it out on a small feature in an existing project.
AngularJS
AngularJS lets you write client-side web applications as if you had a smarter browser. It lets you use good old HTML (or HAML, Jade and friends!) as your template language and lets you extend HTML’s syntax to express your application’s components clearly and succinctly. It automatically synchronizes data from your UI (view) with your JavaScript objects (model) through 2-way data binding.
