Paul Obunga
1 min readFeb 16, 2019

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This is awesome. I’ve been developing location based apps but most cases I get the location from the IP address and then target users with localised content basing on their location.

There are drawbacks to each approach though like

Some users hide their IP addresses using VPNS or proxies. If you are developing apps that strongly depend on the users location it can be quite tricky to target such users with localised content as the IP address returned will belong to the proxy or VPN Network.

The work around though would be to ask the user for their location as a final fallback after Geolocation and IP methods don’t return accurate info.

I plan on mixing up my server side approach with your client side implementation here and see what I come up with… Thanks so much 😁

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Paul Obunga
Paul Obunga

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