Vue.js BeHave tracking plugin

Client-side plugin providing a BeHave tracking interface for Vue.js based applications.

Installation

Vue.js setup

import Vue from 'vue'
import VueBehave from '@strg/behave-tracking-client-vue'

// router and options definition...

Vue.use(VueBehave, { router, options })

Nuxt.js setup

import Vue from 'vue'
import VueBehave from '@strg/behave-tracking-client-vue'

// options definition...

export default ({ app: { router } }) => {
  Vue.use(VueBehave, { router, options })
}

Router

Router of your Vue.js application - required if you wish to track URLs and referrers. If not provided, URL and referrer tracking is automatically disabled.

Options

Object with the following properties:

• debugMode - logs events to console instead of using websocket
• urlTracking - enables / disables url tracking
• referrerTracking - enables / disables referrer tracking
• eventKeyUrl
• eventKeyReferrer
• eventKeyClick
• eventKeyScroll
• eventKeyView
• eventContentIdMode - default or crc32
• config - behave configuration object
  • NAMESPACE
  • CLIENT_STORAGE_NAMESPACE
  • COOKIE_NAME
  • RECONNECT_TIMEOUT
  • ENDPOINT - required if not in debug mode

The minimal required options look like this:

const options = {
  config: {
    ENDPOINT: ''  // websocket endpoint
  },
}

Or using the debug mode:

const options = {
  debugMode: true
}

Default Options

User provided options object gets merged with the defaults during the plugin installation. These are the default values:

{
    debugMode: false,
    urlTracking: true,
    referrerTracking: true,
    eventKeyUrl: 'url',
    eventKeyReferrer: 'referrer',
    eventKeyClick: 'click',
    eventKeyScroll: 'scroll',
    eventKeyView: 'view'
    eventContentIdMode: 'default',
    config: {
        NAMESPACE: 'strgBeHave',
        CLIENT_STORAGE_NAMESPACE: 'strgBeHave',
        COOKIE_NAME: 'STRG.BeHaveOptOut',
        RECONNECT_TIMEOUT: 60000,
        ENDPOINT: null
    }
}

Usage

Plugin can track engagement in two ways:

• how user navigates the application
• how user interacts with specific elements on the page

Navigation tracking

Starts automatically if router is provided. If you wish to disable either url or referrer tracking, you can do so via options' urlTracking and referrerTracking properties.

Content Interactions

Plugin exposes three tracking methods available in your components via the $behave property.

• trackScrolling(vm, eventKey, contentId)
• trackClicks(vm, eventKey, contentId)
• trackView(vm, eventKey, contentId)

Where:

• vm - view model of the component
• eventKey - custom behave event key (optional - falls back to global plugin options)
• contentId - unique identifier of the content in question

Example:

mounted () {
  this.$behave.trackClicks(this, 'behave-recommendation-box-1234-teaser-click', 'product-1234')
},

By having access to the view model of your components, plugin can properly unregister events by itself when components get destroyed. This means that as a consumer, you don't need to pollute your application's main logic with additional cleanup code.