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@vaadin/vaadin-usage-statistics
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Gathers usage statistics for components used during application development
To be able to understand and focus development more efficiently, Vaadin gathers product usage statistics during development time and ties this to users who are logged in to their Vaadin account. No statistics or other data is collected from the users of the applications based on any Vaadin technologies.
Statistics are only gathered when the application is in development mode. Statistics are automatically disabled and the statistics gathering code is automatically excluded from production builds.
Using npm, you can disable it for the machine by running
npm explore @vaadin/vaadin-usage-statistics -- npm run disable
or you can disable it for the project by adding
"vaadin": { "disableUsageStatistics": true }
to your project package.json and running npm install again (remove node_modules if needed).
You can verify this by checking that vaadin-usage-statistics.js contains an empty function.
Add to your pom.xml:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.webjars.bowergithub.vaadin</groupId>
<artifactId>vaadin-usage-statistics</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0-optout</version>
</dependency>
To opt-out from statistics, install the no-op version of the vaadin-usage-statistics package using
bower install --save vaadin/vaadin-usage-statistics#optout
You can verify this by checking that vaadin-usage-statistics.html is empty.
If you have any questions on the use of the statistics, please contact statistics@vaadin.com.
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Gathers usage statistics for components used during application development
We found that @vaadin/vaadin-usage-statistics demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 12 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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