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@posthog/plugin-contrib
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This project contains shared code that PostHog plugin authors can use.
Code imported from this package runs outside the plugin virtual machine, and can thus use timeouts and other NodeJS features.
import { createBuffer } from '@posthog/plugin-contrib'
import fetch from 'node-fetch'
export function setupPlugin({ global }) {
global.buffer = createBuffer({
limit: 10 * 1024 * 1024, // 10 MB
timeoutSeconds: 10 * 60, // 10 minutes
onFlush: async (batch) => {
const resp = await fetch('https://httpbin.org/post', {
method: 'post',
body: JSON.stringify(batch),
headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
})
const json = await resp.json()
if (!json.success) {
// retry somehow?
}
},
})
}
export function teardownPlugin({ global }) {
global.buffer.flush()
}
export function processEvent(event, { config, global }) {
global.buffer.add(event, JSON.stringify(event).length) // add(object, points)
return event
}
It's magic! Just bump up version in package.json on the main branch and the new version will be published automatically, on GitHub and on npm. Courtesy of GitHub Actions.
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The npm package @posthog/plugin-contrib receives a total of 1,524 weekly downloads. As such, @posthog/plugin-contrib popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @posthog/plugin-contrib demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 14 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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