@firebase/analytics

What is @firebase/analytics?

The @firebase/analytics package is part of the Firebase platform and is used to integrate Google Analytics with web applications to track and analyze user interactions and behavior in a privacy-compliant manner. It provides insights into app usage patterns and effectiveness of different features, helping developers to make data-driven decisions to improve their applications.

What are @firebase/analytics's main functionalities?

Event Tracking

This feature allows developers to track custom events within their application. The code sample demonstrates how to log a 'purchase' event with additional parameters describing the item purchased.

firebase.analytics().logEvent('purchase', {item: 'blue jeans', size: 'L'});

Screen Tracking

Enables tracking of user visits to different screens within the application, useful for understanding user flows and engagement. The code sample sets the current screen to 'Homepage' with an optional screen class override.

firebase.analytics().setCurrentScreen('Homepage', 'homepage_screen');

User Properties

This allows the setting of user properties which can be used to segment users in analytics reports. The code sample demonstrates setting a user property for the user's favorite food.

firebase.analytics().setUserProperties({favorite_food: 'pizza'});

Other packages similar to @firebase/analytics

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universal-analytics

A Node.js module for Google's Universal Analytics tracking. Unlike @firebase/analytics, which is tightly integrated with Firebase services, universal-analytics is more flexible and can be used in any Node.js application without Firebase.

matomo

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README

@firebase/analytics

This is the Firebase Analytics component of the Firebase JS SDK.

This package is not intended for direct usage, and should only be used via the officially supported firebase package.