Piwik Tracker (React)

Stand alone library for using Piwik tracking in React projects. This package contains React bindings for @amsterdam/piwik-tracker package. It is therefor not compatible with default Piwik implementations.

Installation

npm install @amsterdam/piwik-tracker-react

Usage

Before you're able to use this Piwik Tracker you need to create a Piwik instance with your project specific details and wrap your application with the PiwikProvider that this package exposes.

import { PiwikProvider, createInstance } from '@amsterdam/piwik-tracker-react';

const instance = createInstance({
  urlBase: 'https://LINK.TO.DOMAIN',
  siteId: '3',
  disabled: false, // optional, false by default. Makes all tracking calls no-ops if set to true.
  heartBeat: {
    // optional, enabled by default
    active: true, // optional, default value: true
    seconds: 10, // optional, default value: `15
  },
});

ReactDOM.render(
  <PiwikProvider value={instance}>
    <MyApp />
  </PiwikProvider>
);

After wrapping your application with the PiwikProvider you can use the usePiwik hook to track your application from anywhere within the PiwikProvider component tree:

import React from 'react';
import { usePiwik } from '@amsterdam/piwik-tracker-react';

const MyPage = () => {
  const { trackPageView } = usePiwik();

  // Track page view
  React.useEffect(() => {
    trackPageView({
      href: 'https://LINK.TO.PAGE',
    });
  }, []);

  return (
    <button type="button" onClick={handleOnClick}>
      Click me
    </button>
  );
};

Advanced usage

Custom dimensions can be used:

import React from 'react';
import { usePiwik } from '@amsterdam/piwik-tracker-react';

const MyPage = () => {
  const { trackPageView } = usePiwik();

  // Track page view
  React.useEffect(() => {
    trackPageView({
      href: 'https://LINK.TO.PAGE',
      customDimensions: [
        {
          id: 1,
          value: 'loggedIn',
        },
      ], // optional
    });
  }, []);

  return (
    <button type="button" onClick={handleOnClick}>
      Click me
    </button>
  );
};

The usePiwik hook also exposes the following methods:

• trackSiteSearch()
• trackLink()
• pushInstruction()
• trackDownload()

For example, the pushInstruction() function can be used to push instructions to Piwik for execution. This is equivalent to pushing entries into the _paq array.

const { pushInstruction } = usePiwik();
pushInstruction('setUserId', 'USER_ID_HERE');