getting-started.md

Getting started with Google Analytics

AngularFireAnalytics dynamically imports the firebase/analytics library and provides a promisified version of the Firebase Analytics SDK (firebase.analytics.Analytics).

API:

class AngularFireAnalytics {
  updateConfig(options: {[key:string]: any}): Promise<void>;

  // from firebase.analytics() proxy:
  logEvent(eventName: string, eventParams?: {[key: string]: any}, options?: analytics.AnalyticsCallOptions): Promise<void>;
  setCurrentScreen(screenName: string, options?: analytics.AnalyticsCallOptions): Promise<void>;
  setUserId(id: string, options?: analytics.AnalyticsCallOptions): Promise<void>;
  setUserProperties(properties: analytics.CustomParams, options?: analytics.AnalyticsCallOptions): Promise<void>;
  setAnalyticsCollectionEnabled(enabled: boolean): Promise<void>;
  app: Promise<app.App>;
}

COLLECTION_ENABLED = InjectionToken<boolean>;
APP_VERSION = InjectionToken<string>;
APP_NAME = InjectionToken<string>;
DEBUG_MODE = InjectionToken<boolean>;
CONFIG = InjectionToken<Config>;

Usage:

import { AngularFireAnalyticsModule } from '@angular/fire/analytics';

@NgModule({
  imports: [
    AngularFireModule.initializeApp(environment.firebase),
    AngularFireAnalyticsModule
  ]
})
export class AppModule { }

AngularFireAnalyticsModule will dynamically import and configure firebase/analytics. A page_view event will automatically be logged (see CONFIG below if you wish to disable this behavior.)

In your component you can then dependency inject AngularFireAnalytics and make calls against the SDK:

import { AngularFireAnalytics } from '@angular/fire/analytics';

constructor(analytics: AngularFireAnalytics) {
  analytics.logEvent('custom_event', { ... });
}

Tracking Screen Views

You can log screen_view events yourself of course, but AngularFire provides the ScreenTrackingService which automatically integrates with the Angular Router to provide Firebase with screen view tracking. You simply can integrate like so:

import { AngularFireAnalyticsModule, ScreenTrackingService } from '@angular/fire/analytics';

@NgModule({
  imports: [
    AngularFireModule.initializeApp(environment.firebase),
    AngularFireAnalyticsModule
  ],
  providers: [
    ScreenTrackingService
  ]
})
export class AppModule { }

AngularFireAnalyticsModule will initialize ScreenTrackingService if it is provided.

Tracking User Identifiers

To enrich your Analytics data you can track the currently signed in user by setting setuserid and setUserProperties. AngularFire provides a UserTrackingService which will dynamically import firebase/auth, monitor for changes in the logged in user, and call setuserid for you automatically.

import { AngularFireAnalyticsModule, UserTrackingService } from '@angular/fire/analytics';

@NgModule({
  imports: [
    AngularFireModule.initializeApp(environment.firebase),
    AngularFireAnalyticsModule
  ],
  providers: [
    UserTrackingService
  ]
})
export class AppModule { }

AngularFireAnalyticsModule will initialize UserTrackingService if it is provided.

Configuration with Dependency Injection

Configure Google Analtyics with CONFIG

Using the CONFIG DI Token (default: {}) will allow you to configure Google Analytics. E.g, you could skip sending the initial page_view event, anonymize IP addresses, and disallow ads personalization signals for all events like so:

import { AngularFireAnalyticsModule, CONFIG } from '@angular/fire/analytics';

@NgModule({
  imports: [
    AngularFireModule.initializeApp(environment.firebase),
    AngularFireAnalyticsModule
  ],
  providers: [
    { provide: CONFIG, useValue: {
      send_page_view: false,
      allow_ad_personalization_signals: false,
      anonymize_ip: true
    } }
  ]
})
export class AppModule { }

See the gtag.js documentation to learn of the different configuration options at your disposal.

Use DebugView DEBUG_MODE

To use DebugView in Analytics set DEBUG_MODE to true (default: false).

Track deployments with APP_NAME and APP_VERSION

If you provide APP_NAME and APP_VERSION (default: undefined) you will be able to track version adoption of your PWA.

Disable analytics collection via COLLECTION_ENABLED

If you set COLLECTION_ENABLED (default: true) to false then analytics collection will be disabled for this app on this device. To opt back in to analytics collection you could then call setAnalyticsCollectionEnabled(true).

Putting these APIs to use with cookies would allow you to create a flexible analytics collection scheme that would respect your user's desire for privacy.