Google Analytics client for Electron applications with some useful builtin features

• Unique Client ID for every machine, where your app has been installed
• Cache for offline usage
• Promise-based API
• It sends the following params by default:
  • Protocol Version
  • Client ID: unique for every machine
  • Application Name
  • Application Version
  • User Language: determined by user agent
  • User Agent: prepared to make interpretable for Analytics to parse the Platform info
  • Screen Resolution
  • Viewport Size

First create a Google Analytics Mobile Account. It is needed, because webpage account does not track many parameters, like version. In many aspect an Electron application is more similar to a mobile application than a simple webpage.

electron-ga works only in the renderer process.

import Analytics from 'electron-ga';

const analytics = new Analytics('UA-XXXXXXXX-X');

Then:

await analytics.send('screenview', { cd: 'User List' });
await analytics.send('event', { ec: 'Scroll', ea: 'scrollto', el: 'row', ev: 123 });

electron-ga uses Google Analytics Measurement Protocol. You can add custom parameters or ovveride any of them.

The trackId is a string and its format is: UA-XXXXXXXX-X.

The initParams is an object and its optional properties are:

• protocolVersion
• trackId
• clientId
• userId - undefined by default
• appName
• appVersion
• language
• userAgent
• viewport
• screenResolution

You can set any of them with a constant string value or a getter function, that returns a string value:

const analytics = new Analytics('UA-XXXXXXXX-X', {
  userId: '123456',
  language: () => store.getState().language
});

The hitType is a string. You can find here the available values.

The additionalParams is an object with any properties, which are acceptable by the Google Analytics Measurement Protocol.

MIT