Google Analytics [SPIKE]

[jackcarlisle]

Google Analytics can add a lot to a project in terms of gaining additional data of how users are moving through and using the application.

Investigate Google Analytics integration with Elixir:

• research existing modules
• assert the complexity of building our own

[jackcarlisle]

At a first glance there only seems to be a couple of existing modules for GA in Elixir (both with next to no stars/downloads):
EightyFour:

• https://github.com/twined/eightyfour
• https://hex.pm/packages/eightyfour

Legato:

• https://github.com/tpitale/legato-ex
• not available on hex

[jackcarlisle]

Potential (naive) solution could be to add a counter that gets called on a page load which increments the views on the backend.

[jackcarlisle]

Parking for now, we can't create a GA account until there is more content on the live application.