Add insight dependency to anonymously report usage metrics

[bmpvieira]

We should probably add yeoman/insight ASAP to all modules with .askPermission() enabled by default. This data could be very useful when applying for future grants.

• bionode-ncbi
• bionode-watermill
• bionode-fasta
• bionode-seq
• bionode-sra
• bionode-quickgo
• etc

[thejmazz]

Good idea, looking at the readme, I think you create URLs to display info about specific commands?

So like

insight.track('ncbi', 'download')

and

insight.track('ncbi', 'search')

for the NCBI module would count how many times specific commands were called?

And at a more basic level, keep track of which modules are being installed.

Could also be cool to get CLI vs. require metrics.

Is this something that is triggered after npm install? I think you can identify a script to run in package.json after install finishes, so it could probably be put there.

[tiagofilipe12]

It would help if you have the bionode-ncbi example implementation somehow documented here.

[bmpvieira]

Do:

git clone git@github.com:bionode/bionode-MODULE_NAME.git
cd bionode-MODULE_NAME
npm install --save-dev insight

Then add to the lib folder the anonymous-tracking.js file.

Require that file in the main module JS file.
Add tracking to relevant functions, i.e., functions that are part of the API and that we want to track usage. The format should be:

insight.track('MODULE_NAME_SUFFIX', 'FUNCTION_NAME')
# Example
insight.track('ncbi', 'search')

Also add tracking to CLI.