@analytics/mixpanel
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analyticsIntegration with Mixpanel for analytics
This analytics plugin will load Mixpanel's client side tracking script into your application and send custom events, page views, and identify visitors inside Mixpanel.
Install analytics and @analytics/mixpanel packages
npm install analytics
npm install @analytics/mixpanel
The @analytics/mixpanel package works in the browser. To use, install the package, include in your project and initialize the plugin with analytics.
Below is an example of how to use the browser plugin.
import Analytics from 'analytics'
import mixpanelPlugin from '@analytics/mixpanel'
const analytics = Analytics({
app: 'awesome-app',
plugins: [
mixpanelPlugin({
token: 'abcdef123'
})
]
})
/* Track a page view */
analytics.page()
/* Track a custom event */
analytics.track('cartCheckout', {
item: 'pink socks',
price: 20
})
/* Identify a visitor */
analytics.identify('user-id-xyz', {
firstName: 'bill',
lastName: 'murray'
})
After initializing analytics with the mixpanelPlugin plugin, data will be sent into Mixpanel whenever analytics.identify, analytics.page, or analytics.track are called.
See additional implementation examples for more details on using in your project.
The @analytics/mixpanel package works in the browser
The Mixpanel client side browser plugin works with these analytic api methods:
import Analytics from 'analytics'
import mixpanelPlugin from '@analytics/mixpanel'
const analytics = Analytics({
app: 'awesome-app',
plugins: [
mixpanelPlugin({
token: 'abcdef123'
})
]
})
| Option | description |
|---|---|
token required - string | The mixpanel token associated to a mixpanel project |
pageEvent optional - string | Event name to use for page() events (default to page path) |
customScriptSrc optional - string | Load mixpanel script from custom source |
Below are additional implementation examples.
Below is an example of importing via the unpkg CDN. Please note this will pull in the latest version of the package.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Using @analytics/mixpanel in HTML</title>
<script src="https://unpkg.com/analytics/dist/analytics.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://unpkg.com/@analytics/mixpanel/dist/@analytics/mixpanel.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
/* Initialize analytics */
var Analytics = _analytics.init({
app: 'my-app-name',
plugins: [
analyticsMixpanel({
token: 'abcdef123'
})
]
})
/* Track a page view */
analytics.page()
/* Track a custom event */
analytics.track('cartCheckout', {
item: 'pink socks',
price: 20
})
/* Identify a visitor */
analytics.identify('user-id-xyz', {
firstName: 'bill',
lastName: 'murray'
})
</script>
</head>
<body>
....
</body>
</html>
Using @analytics/mixpanel in ESM modules.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Using @analytics/mixpanel in HTML via ESModules</title>
<script>
// Polyfill process.
// **Note**: Because `import`s are hoisted, we need a separate, prior <script> block.
window.process = window.process || { env: { NODE_ENV: 'production' } }
</script>
<script type="module">
import analytics from 'https://unpkg.com/analytics/lib/analytics.browser.es.js?module'
import analyticsMixpanel from 'https://unpkg.com/@analytics/mixpanel/lib/analytics-plugin-mixpanel.browser.es.js?module'
/* Initialize analytics */
const Analytics = analytics({
app: 'analytics-html-demo',
debug: true,
plugins: [
analyticsMixpanel({
token: 'abcdef123'
})
// ... add any other third party analytics plugins
]
})
/* Track a page view */
analytics.page()
/* Track a custom event */
analytics.track('cartCheckout', {
item: 'pink socks',
price: 20
})
/* Identify a visitor */
analytics.identify('user-id-xyz', {
firstName: 'bill',
lastName: 'murray'
})
</script>
</head>
<body>
....
</body>
</html>
FAQs
Mixpanel plugin for 'analytics' module
The npm package @analytics/mixpanel receives a total of 12,749 weekly downloads. As such, @analytics/mixpanel popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @analytics/mixpanel demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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