angularytics

#Angularytics

Angularytics is the solution to tracking PageViews and Events on your Single Page App.

All analytics frameworks are based on browser refreshes to track page views. I've created this service wrapper so that we can track page views in our WebApp without a page refresh and without too much configuration.

Main Features

This are Angularytics main features:

• It automatically tracks a new page view with all of the connected providers (For now Google Analytics and console.log) once you change the URL in your SPA
• It gives you the ability to track events either by calling the Angularytics service or by using the trackEvent filter.

#How do I add this to my project?

You can download this by:

• Using bower and running bower install angularytics
• Using npm and running npm install angularytics
• Downloading it manually by clicking here to download development unminified version or here to download minified production version

#Prerequisites

Angularytics depends on AngularJS.

You need to add the needed Analytics code (Google Analytics) in your app. I though of adding this in the service, but if you just add it in the body, it'd load MUCH faster than if we loaded this in the init. If everybody wants to move this to the service's init, then please submit an issue.

#Starter Guide

TL;DR Basic configuration on your app.

This is the quick configuration to bootstrap all. Read the rest of the documentation for further configuration and understanding. After doing this, Angularytics will automatically track all of the page views in the app for you.

angular.module('sample-app', ['angularytics'])
  .config(function(AngularyticsProvider) {
    AngularyticsProvider.setEventHandlers(['Console', 'GoogleUniversal']);
  }).run(function(Angularytics) {
    Angularytics.init();
  });

Tracking Page Views

This is easy :). You don't need to do anything. By configuring Angularytics with your app like in the step before, all pages will start being tracked.

Tracking events

The trackEvent function in service and filter has the same parameters in the same order as Google Analytics. Click here to check the Google Analytics documentation. There're 2 ways of tracking events. Either using Angularytics service, or using the filter.

Using the filter

This is the most common way of tracking events. Suppose that you have a button which calls some function on your scope and you want to track when that button is clicked. This is the example:

<input type="submit" ng-click="doSomething() | trackEvent:'Home Category':'Button clicked'" />

Using the service

You just need to inject the service and call the trackEvent function.

Let's see an example:

angular.controller('MainCtrl', function(Angularytics, $scope) {
    $scope.click = function() {
        Angularytics.trackEvent("Home Category", "Button clicked");
    }
});

Event Handlers (Available providers)

There're now 3 event handlers: Console and Google and GoogleUniversal. The last one of this uses ga instead of _gaq

Console will log all page views and events. Google will track using Google Analytics all page views and events.

Adding your own event handler

You can add your own event handler in 3 wasy steps:

Create your service.

You need to create a service with the following name format: Angularytics[EventHandlerName]Handler. For example AngularyticsKissmetricsHandler.

This service must have the following methods and signatures:

• trackPageView(url): Tracks a page view to the given URL
• trackEvent(category, action, opt_label, opt_value, opt_noninteraction): Tracks a new event with the given parameters
• trackTiming(category, variable, value, opt_label): Tracks user timings with the given parameters

Use this service by changing the AngularyticsProvider

Use this newly created service by setting the name in the AngularyticsProvider. For example:

// Considering the service is named AngularyticsKissmetricsHandler
AngularyticsProvider.setEventHandlers(['Console', 'Kissmetrics']);

Have fun using it

This is easy, right?

Releases Notes

Click here to see Releases Notes

License

The MIT License

Copyright (c) 2013 Martin Gontovnikas http://www.gon.to/

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