Motivation

While @ibm/telemetry-js allows opting out of data collection, the only mechanism available to do so (setting environment variable IBM_TELEMETRY_DISABLED to 'true') isn't always practical. For example:

• An application depends on @carbon/react, which transitively pulls in @ibm/telemetry-js.
• The application's build should be platform-agnostic, so a preinstall hook script would have to set the environment variable in a way compatible with cmd.exe, PowerShell, and sh(1).
• The application is built on a tightly controlled pipeline that prohibits adding environment variables.

How to use

npm

  "overrides": {
    "@ibm/telemetry-js": "npm:ibm_telemetry-dummy"
  }

Yarn

  "resolutions": {
    "@ibm/telemetry-js": "npm:ibm_telemetry-dummy"
  }