Allow server-side analytics

[pauldowman]

Currently we use Segment's open source analytics.js library, which I don't think would work server side. I haven't investigated how we would make it work but it would be great to be able to log events on the server side too.

[pauldowman]

I think the best option would probably be to add something separate server-side that mimics the same API (analytics.track()). I doubt we'd find something cross-platform that supports all of the integrations though (which might be a good thing anyway since we want to split them out into multiple packages.

It might not be a bad idea to start with just GA and Segment.

[nadeemja]

Any progress on this? :)

[Kemingkai]

I am also interested in whether there's any progress on having an open source library for server side analytics. Thanks!

[arrygoo]

Currently there is no plan to implement this in the near future, but pull requests are welcome!

[Kemingkai]

Got it, thanks for your quick reply. I think this would be a bit above my abilities :)

[t3db0t]

Hm; why is analytics exported to server at all then? It doesn't seem to even be defined on the server.
https://github.com/okgrow/analytics/blob/master/package.js#L36

[arrygoo]

@t3db0t the server export was left there for backwards compatibility.

[luzlab]

I saw analytics.js has a server-side Node library. I took a look but need to dig into the code to understand how to set it up. I'll spend some time on figuring this out and see if I can put together a PR.

[pauldowman]

Thanks @luzlab. I think it only supports Segment as an integration (which of course then lets you send the data on to the other services).

[thebarty]

Hi guys, just letting you know that it would be really cool to have server-side support!!

[RichardLitt]

Thanks for the note, @thebarty! Currently, this is waiting on community contributions, as it isn't being prioritized. If you'd like to take a crack at it, we'd be happy to review any PRs.