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Initial implementation was based on Insight.
var Leek = require('./lib/leek'),
leek = new Leek({
trackingCode: 'xx-xxxxxxxx-x',
globalName: 'my-nifty-package',
version: '1.0.1'
});
leek.trackEvent({
name: 'my-nifty-package',
category: 'pony show',
label: 'white',
value: 'jumps'
});
var Leek = require('./lib/leek'),
leek = new Leek({
trackingCode: 'xx-xxxxxxxx-x',
name: 'my-nifty-package',
version: '1.0.1'
});
try {
throw new Error('ZOMG FIX ME')
} catch(e) {
leek.trackError({
description: e.message + ' ' + e.stack,
isFatal: true
});
}
var Leek = require('./lib/leek'),
leek = new Leek({
trackingCode: 'xx-xxxxxxxx-x',
name: 'my-nifty-package',
version: '1.0.1'
});
leek.track({
name: 'my-nifty-package show pony',
message: 'pony is here'
});
Setting the DISABLE_LEEK
environment variable will disable tracking.
Passing in an object of adapter URLs will send the data to alternative tracking service.
var Leek = require('./lib/leek');
var leek = new Leek({
trackingCode: 'xx-xxxxxxxx-x',
name: 'my-nifty-package',
version: '1.0.1',
adapterUrls: {
appview: 'http://example.com/collect-app',
exception: 'http://example.com/collect-exception',
timing: 'http://example.com/collect-timing',
event: 'http://example.com/collect-event'
}
});
var Leek = require('./lib/leek');
var leek = new Leek({
trackingCode: 'xx-xxxxxxxx-x',
name: 'my-nifty-package',
version: '1.0.1',
silent: true
});
FAQs
GA tracking
The npm package leek receives a total of 160,902 weekly downloads. As such, leek popularity was classified as popular.
We found that leek demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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