ophan-tracker-js

Ophan Tracker JS

Browser JavaScript client for Ophan.

Install

$ npm install ophan-tracker-js

Contribute

Proxy tracker-ts:

1. Install dependencies

   $ brew install lighttpd
   .../ophan/tracker-js $ npm install
   

2. In one terminal window:

   .../ophan/tracker-js $ grunt
   .../ophan/tracker-js $ grunt watch
   
   

3. In another terminal window:

   .../ophan/tracker-js $ lighttpd -f lighttpd.conf -D
   

4. Install FoxyProxy (https://getfoxyproxy.org/downloads/) in your browser and create a rule that forces j.ophan.co.uk to localhost 8000. (For me FoxyProxy needed a few switches on and off before it decided to start talking to lighttpd.)

5. In another terminal window, start a server that is running the Guardian frontend

6. Navigate to where you are running the Guardian locally (e.g. https://localhost:9000/uk)

7. Ensure FoxyProxy is enabled

8. Develop with pleasure

Publish

Two formats for release

When you make a change to Tracker JS, you must release on both these systems:

• The NPM package ophan-tracker-js, commonly used on internally developed Guardian sites like Guardian Frontend and Support Frontend.
• https://j.ophan.co.uk/ - CDN/S3, deployed through RiffRaff and used by some Guardian sites like https://jobs.theguardian.com/. An advantage of this approach is that sites using it immediately get Tracker JS updates, without developer intervention.

Ensure that before you merge a change, you first bump the version in package.json. Please make sure you update the changes.md file too. If you have added a new Ophan client to support a new platform, please add the path to the built output file to the files list in package.json.

Publish to NPM

Whenever the Tracker script is changed, its ophan-tracker-js NPM package will need to be updated to a new version.

If you don't already have an NPM account, be sure to set up two-factor authentification.

Log into NPM

$ npm login

Compile

.../ophan/tracker-js $ npm install

Publish

.../ophan/tracker-js $ npm publish

You will need to be added as an owner of ophan-tracker-js. To find the current owners:

$ npm owner ls ophan-tracker-js 

To add someone as an owner:

npm owner add npm.username ophan-tracker-js

More information on setting owners is available in NPM's documentation.