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@automattic/node-tracks
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A Tracks wrapper for NodeJS
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import tracker from '@automattic/node-tracks';
const trackEvent = tracker( '<valid_event_prefix>', { _ut: '<valid_event_user_type>' } ).trackEvent;
// tracker takes 2 arguments
// prefix (string): all your events will be prefixed with this
// globalParams (object): this is a global object that will be sent with all requests. `_ut` is required
trackEvent( 'eventName', extraParams, logger );
// trackEvent takes 3 arguments
// eventName (string) : Your event name
// extraParams (object): Any extra params
// logger (optional): will log to the console otherwise
Please refer to this table for a list of all extraParams
See CONTRIBUTING.md for details on development, testing, publishing, etc.
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Tracks wrapper for NodeJS
The npm package @automattic/node-tracks receives a total of 67 weekly downloads. As such, @automattic/node-tracks popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that @automattic/node-tracks demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 53 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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