Boba.js: a JavaScript library for Google Analytics

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Post by athaeryn » Tue, Jun 10, 2014, 2:41 PM UTC

Boba.js: a JavaScript library for Google Analytics
boba.space150.com

Re: Boba.js: a JavaScript library for Google Analytics

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Post by bshimmin » Tue, Jun 10, 2014, 3:07 PM UTC

What a beautiful illustration and web site for 104 lines of (admittedly quite useful) JavaScript!

Re: Boba.js: a JavaScript library for Google Analytics

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Post by antjanus » Tue, Jun 10, 2014, 3:22 PM UTC

This is pretty awesome. GA isn't the easiest thing to work with, nor the most semantical. Boba seems to add some sense into the entire ordeal.

Cool stuff! :)

Re: Boba.js: a JavaScript library for Google Analytics

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Post by gk1 » Tue, Jun 10, 2014, 3:26 PM UTC

antjanus wrote: post #3

This is pretty awesome. GA isn't the easiest thing to work with, nor the most semantical. Boba seems to add some sense into the entire ordeal. Cool stuff! :)

Have you tried using Google Tag Manager? It does most of this through a simple UI, which means less work/frustration for developers.

Re: Boba.js: a JavaScript library for Google Analytics

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Post by james33 » Tue, Jun 10, 2014, 4:37 PM UTC

It is too bad it requires jQuery, looks useful otherwise.

Re: Boba.js: a JavaScript library for Google Analytics

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Post by Grum » Tue, Jun 10, 2014, 4:46 PM UTC

gk1 wrote: post #4

antjanus wrote: post #3

This is pretty awesome. GA isn't the easiest thing to work with, nor the most semantical. Boba seems to add some sense into the entire ordeal. Cool stuff! :)

Have you tried using Google Tag Manager? It does most of this through a simple UI, which means less work/frustration for developers.

I was thinking the same...

Re: Boba.js: a JavaScript library for Google Analytics

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Post by athaeryn » Tue, Jun 10, 2014, 5:01 PM UTC

james33 wrote: post #5

It is too bad it requires jQuery, looks useful otherwise.

I've considered removing the dependency, but I'm not quite sure how I want to go about it. It's something I'd like to do, certainly, but as we use jQuery on pretty much all of our projects there wasn't too much motivation to ditch it.

Feel free to open an issue—or even better, send a pull request—on GitHub. :)

Re: Boba.js: a JavaScript library for Google Analytics

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Post by iamchrisle » Tue, Jun 10, 2014, 5:04 PM UTC

gk1 wrote: post #4

antjanus wrote: post #3

This is pretty awesome. GA isn't the easiest thing to work with, nor the most semantical. Boba seems to add some sense into the entire ordeal. Cool stuff! :)

Have you tried using Google Tag Manager? It does most of this through a simple UI, which means less work/frustration for developers.

Google Tag Manager is great!

Pros: - It's good at dealing with older browsers - It's async (non blocking) - Simple to implement - No dependencies

Cons: - UI is simple but workflow is a little confusing at first - Not "plug-and-play". Still requires a little working knowledge about Google Analytics.

Re: Boba.js: a JavaScript library for Google Analytics

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Post by bckmn » Tue, Jun 10, 2014, 5:56 PM UTC

I actually wrote a slick version of this a few months ago. No jQuery dependency, fully configurable: https://github.com/jbckmn/gatrack.js

Re: Boba.js: a JavaScript library for Google Analytics

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Post by ybv » Tue, Jun 10, 2014, 5:57 PM UTC

bckmn wrote: post #9

I actually wrote a slick version of this a few months ago. No jQuery dependency, fully configurable: https://github.com/jbckmn/gatrack.js

This is pretty sweet, actually.