posthog-js
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Posthog-js allows you to automatically capture usage and send events to PostHog.
For information on using this library in your app, see PostHog Docs. This README is intended for developing the library itself.
We use pnpm.
It's best to install using npm install -g pnpm@latest-9
and then pnpm commands as usual
This package has the following optional peer dependencies:
@rrweb/types (2.0.0-alpha.17): Only required if you're using Angular Compiler and need type definitions for the rrweb integration.rrweb-snapshot (2.0.0-alpha.17): Only required if you're using Angular Compiler and need type definitions for the rrweb integration.These dependencies are marked as optional to reduce installation size for users who don't need these specific features.
See CONTRIBUTING.md for package-specific testing and local linking instructions.
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Posthog-js allows you to automatically capture usage and send events to PostHog.
The npm package posthog-js receives a total of 4,799,971 weekly downloads. As such, posthog-js popularity was classified as popular.
We found that posthog-js demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 17 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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