30-seconds-of-code/snippets/supportsTouchEvents.md

title, tags

title	tags
supportsTouchEvents	browser,intermediate

Returns true if touch events are supported, false otherwise.

• Check if ontouchstart exists in window or window.DocumentTouch is true and the current document is an instance of it.

const supportsTouchEvents = () =>
  window &&
  ('ontouchstart' in window || window.DocumentTouch && document instanceof window.DocumentTouch);

supportsTouchEvents(); // true