folks attending the React London Meetup tonight, watch this space as I'll add loads of links to resources related to the Analytics topic :)

pls open an issue here or ping me on Twitter https://twitter.com/mhipszki if you have any follow-up question I'm happy to help!

Analytics in a React / Redux Single Page App

Synopsis

Have you implemented Analytics before in a React / Redux app? Did you find it easy or difficult? How was the collaboration between UI and Analytics folks? Was it simple to scale or a headache? Getting analytics right in a scalable way can be harder than expected. We discuss why analytics is important, how it works end to end and what the challenges we might face along the way are.

Demo app A/C

UX requirements

[+] app shows a text input for the user to enter some text and a button to the message [+] when the user sends the message + the Message API is called with the entered text + the timestamp is captured + the user is notified that the message is being sent + the user can neither edit nor send the message again until the Message API call has returned [+] when the message has been sent + the user is notified that the message was sent and how long the message sending has taken (based on the time stamp) + the user can edit and send a message again + notification disappears after delay showing demo title

Analytics requirements

The following needs to be tracked:

[+] user sends message

// action: MESSAGE_SENT
// result to be pushed to data layer
const transform = (state, action) => ({
    event: 'message_sent',
    message: {
        text: state.message.text,
        timestamp: action.timestamp
    }
})

[+] message has been sent and how long the user had to wait for that to finish

// action: MESSAGE_DELIVERED
// result to be pushed to data layer
const transform = (state, action) => ({
    event: 'message_sent',
    message: {
        text: state.message.text,
        timestamp: action.timestamp,
        duration: state.message.sentIn
    }
})