Google Analytics plugin for react-i13n
- Integrate react-i13n to provide instrumentation approach using Google Analytics.
- react-i13n handles the beaconing management and handle the click events, this plugin provides event handlers to handle these events and firing
ga beacons
.
npm install react-i13n-ga
You will need to create a instance of react-i13n-ga
first, then use getPlugin
to get the plugin object, then pass it into setupI13n provided by react-i13n, then it will help to decorate your Top Level Component
with i13n react-i13n-ga
plugin functionalities.
var reactI13nGoogleAnalytics = require('react-i13n-ga');
var setupI13n = require('react-i13n').setupI13n;
var reactI13nGoogleAnalytics = new ReactI13nGoogleAnalytics([your tracking id]); // create reactI13nGoogleAnalytics instance with your tracking id
// or
var reactI13nGoogleAnalytics = new ReactI13nGoogleAnalytics({
trackingId: [mandatory, your tracking id],
cookieDomain: [optional, cookie domain name, by default "auto"],
name: [optional, customized tracker name],
userId: [optional]
}); // create reactI13nGoogleAnalytics instance with config object
// Suppose that Application is your top level component, use setupI13n with this plugin
Application = setupI13n(Application, {}, [reactI13nGoogleAnalytics.getPlugin()]);
- Integrate page tracking,
var ReactI13n = require('react-i13n').ReactI13n;
// fire pageview at whatever you want, typically we do it at componentDidMount
ReactI13n.getInstance().execute('pageview', {
tracker: [tracker name], // optional
location: [page location], // get the page location, or keep empty to let google analytics handle it
url: [page url], // get the page url, or keep empty to let google analytics handle it
title: [page title] // get the page title, or keep empty to let google analytics handle it
});
// in component (React 0.14+)
this.props.i13n.executeEvent('pageview', {
tracker: [tracker name], // optional
location: [page location],
url: [page url],
title: [page title]
});
- Integrate event tracking
- Define the keys in
i13nModel
:tracker
- tracker name, default is undefined.category
- Typically the object that was interacted with, default set asall
.action
- The type of interaction, default set asclick
.label
- Useful for categorizing events, default set as the value of i13nNode.getText.value
- Values must be non-negative. Useful to pass counts (e.g. 4 times).nonInteraction
- Boolean to indicate a non-interaction event.
You can integrate I13nAnchor provided by react-i13n to track the normal links.
var I13nAnchor = require('react-i13n').I13nAnchor;
// in template, will fire event beacon as ga('send', 'event', 'foo', 'click', 'Foo');
<I13nAnchor i13nModel={{category: 'foo', action: 'click'}}>Foo</I13nAnchor>
You can also integrate integrate createI13nNode or I13nMixin to get your custom component be tracked
var createI13nNode = require('react-i13n').createI13nNode;
var Foo = React.createClass({
...
});
Foo = createI13nNode(Foo, {
isLeafNode: true,
bindClickEvent: true,
follow: false
});
// in template
<Foo i13nModel={{category: 'foo', action: 'click', label: 'Foo'}}>
// if Foo is clicked, it will fire event beacon as ga('send', 'event', 'foo', 'click', 'Foo');
...
</Foo>
var I13nMixin = require('react-i13n').I13nMixin;
var Foo = React.createClass({
mixins: [I13nMixin],
// you can set the default props or pass them as props when you are using Foo
getDefaultProps: {
isLeafNode: true,
bindClickEvent: true,
follow: false
}
...
});
// in template
<Foo i13nModel={{category: 'foo', action: 'click', label: 'Foo'}}>
// if Foo is clicked, it will fire event beacon as ga('send', 'event', 'foo', 'click', 'Foo');
...
</Foo>
For better instrumentation integration, you can leverage the inherit architecture, e.g., create a parent and define the category
with default tracker, or specify tracker
, so that all the links inside will apply it.
var createI13nNode = require('react-i13n').createI13nNode;
var I13nAnchor = require('react-i13n').createI13nNode;
var Foo = React.createClass({
...
render: function () {
return (
// all the links inside Foo will apply category=foo as their i13n model
<I13nAnchor href="/foo">...</I13nAnchor>
<I13nAnchor href="/bar">...</I13nAnchor>
<I13nAnchor href="/baz">...</I13nAnchor>
);
}
});
Foo = createI13nNode(Foo, {
isLeafNode: false,
bindClickEvent: false,
follow: false
});
// in template
<Foo i13nModel={{tracker: 'myTracker', category: 'foo'}} />
You can also use the following methods to set properties of GA like User Id or dimension.
var userId = 'aa4ebd41203df5b8639e9fe48d4c6c7de7c4b053';
var dimension1 = 'administrator';
ReactI13n.getInstance().execute('setUsername', { userId: userId });
ReactI13n.getInstance().execute('setSuperProperties', { dimension1: dimension1 });
ReactI13n.getInstance().execute('setUserProperties', { dimension1: dimension1 });
ReactI13n.getInstance().execute('setUserPropertiesOnce', { dimension1: dimension1 });
You can also execute ga command queue by calling executeEvent. It's also possible to execute command on specific tracker . The following are sample usage:
// send by default tracker
this.props.i13n.executeEvent('command', {
commandName: 'send',
arguments: [
hitType,
[...fields],
[fieldsObject])
]
});
// send by specific tracker
this.props.i13n.executeEvent('command', {
tracker: 'myTracker', // tracker name: myTracker
commandName: 'send',
arguments: [
...
]
});
// require on default tracker
this.props.i13n.executeEvent('command', {
commandName: 'require',
arguments: [
pluginName,
[pluginOptions]
]
});
// require plugin for specific tracker
this.props.i13n.executeEvent('command', {
tracker: 'myTracker',
commandName: 'require',
arguments: [
...
]
});
// more and more, such as ga('[myTracker.]set', ...)
// ...