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Is clientjs an idled project?

Open mohaa7 opened this issue 2 years ago • 8 comments

Is it abandoned?

As the code has not been touched for a year, is it recommended to use in production, in terms of bug reports followup?

Will it have any future major release?

mohaa7 avatar Nov 20 '22 23:11 mohaa7

If you are looking for a different library, there is the FingerprintJS library, which has an accuracy between 40% and 60%, but it is fully open source. ClientJS itself has been built upon Valve/fingerprintjs, which then evolved into fingerprintjs/fingerprintjs.

avpaderno avatar Apr 09 '23 18:04 avpaderno

ClientJS is not built on FingerprintJS, but you should def use FingerprintJS! It's professionally maintained, and does provide good accuracy for an open source, client side only product.

jackspirou avatar Apr 09 '23 18:04 jackspirou

I apologize: I was "quoting" the project page, which says Built Upon: and shows three links, including  https://web.archive.org/web/20200714191004/https://github.com/Valve/fingerprintjs.

I did not mean this library has code that comes from that library, but that the project page has links to other libraries, which I take it as meaning These are other libraries with a similar purpose. If I were to look to alternatives, I would check those three links.

avpaderno avatar Apr 10 '23 08:04 avpaderno

https://github.com/fingerprintjs/fingerprintjs just change its license so it can't run in production anymore

acastro2 avatar Aug 02 '23 04:08 acastro2

3.x and lower versions are still licensed under MIT.

avpaderno avatar Aug 02 '23 08:08 avpaderno

3.x and lower versions are still licensed under MIT.

is this true? I can use it on production?

peter-wd-1 avatar Nov 01 '23 04:11 peter-wd-1

I can use it on production?

Changes are not retroactive. The code in version4 is still readble, but not open source anymore! By version3 you will be stuck on an immobile creature!

mohaa7 avatar Nov 01 '23 05:11 mohaa7

Yes, Branch 3.x is still licensed under MIT. I guess they will not back-port to branch 3.x the changes they introduce in branch 4.x, though.

avpaderno avatar Nov 01 '23 15:11 avpaderno