Tealium

Times Components uses Tealium iQ Tag Management to track important visitor activity.

Tag Management is a system for managing the configuration, testing, and release of third-party vendor tags to a digital property. This approach replaces the hard-coded tags on your site with a single container tag. Once this tag is in place you have full control over adding, removing, and updating the tags on your site directly from the iQ Tag Management interface.

You can find a good overview of tag management and how it works on the Tealium website.

Tracking is our generic way of bubbling up events, and we only use Tealium to pass these events to the backend.

This package provides a Class Constructor called TealiumSendScheduler that is configured with some Tealium properties, and takes the global window and document objects as its other arguments. TealiumSendScheduler appends the required Tealium JavaScript to the page (utag.js).

import tealiumReporter, {
  TealiumSendScheduler
} from "@times-components/tealium";

const trackingOptions = {
  account: "my-account-name",
  enabled: true, // (optional) default is true
  env: "my-env-name",
  profile: "my-profile-name"
};

const tealiumSendScheduler = new TealiumSendScheduler(
  trackingOptions,
  global.window,
  global.document
);

const reporter = tealiumReporter(tealiumSendScheduler);

The default export (tealiumReporter) of this package provides an API that allows consumers to call an analytics method with an event. This event will be queued up and reported to Tealium asynchronously.

reporter.analytics(myEvent);

Contributing

Please read CONTRIBUTING.md before contributing to this package

Running the code

Please see our main README.md to get the project running locally

Development

The code can be formatted and linted in accordance with the agreed standards.

yarn fmt
yarn lint

Testing

This package uses yarn (latest) to run unit tests on each platform with jest.

yarn test:web

Future

A little refactoring around how window and document are passed through. document can be derived from window.