# Wide Angle Analytics for Vue.js
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Enable **privacy-friendly** web analytics in your Vue.js 3.x application with our official plugin.
[Wide Angle Analytics](https://wideangle.co) is powerful, strictly-GDPR compliant Google Analytics alternative.
# How to get started
You can enable Wide Angle Analytics in your Vue.js projects in just few steps. No complex configuration needed as our sane defaults give you reliable and privacy centric deployment out of the box.
1. Go to [Wide Angle](https://wideangle.co) website, create an account. You can create free 14-day trail. No Credit Card is required. [Learn more.](https://wideangle.co/documentation/create-account)
2. [Create new Site](https://wideangle.co/documentation/create-and-configure-site) and activate it.
3. Install `wideangle-vuejs` plugin in your Vue application.
```npm install wideangle-vuejs```
4. Enable and configure plugin.
```javascript
import WideAnglePlugin from 'wideangle-vuejs'
app.use(WideAnglePlugin)
```
# Configuring Wide Angle Analytics plugin
The Wide Angle Analytics plugin must be initialized with configuration object as there are required settings without defaults.
option|description|required|default|example
------|-----------|--------|-------|-------
siteId| The Site ID from Wide Angle Site settings| :white_check_mark: | _none_ | 8D27G3B9ACA01F4241
domain| Domain hosting the script, can be found in Wide Angle Analytics Site settings | :white_check_mark: | _none_ | stats.wideangle.co
fingerprint | Should script use browser fingerprinting; this might require collecting consent depeing on the applicable laws | :x: | false | true
suppressDnt | Should script ingore Do Not Track browser setting. If not enabled, not events will be sent if user's browser has DNT enabled | :x: | false | true
includeParams | An array of query parameters that can be passed as part of tracking event. By default only `utm_*` and `ref` parameters are passed in the event | :x: | `[]` | `['sessionId', 'offset']`
excludePaths | An array of URL paths that should not trigger default events such as page view, page leave | :x: | `[]` | `['^/wp-admin/.*', ]`
ignoreHash | If enabled, change in the URL fragment will not trigger page view event | :x: | false | true
consentMarker | Cookie (with or without) value which present implies consent and absence lack its lack | :x: | n/a | `WAA_CONSENT=true`
You will find more details about these settings in [Wide Angle Analytics documentation](https://wideangle.co/documentation/configure-site).
Example:
```javascript
import WideAngle from 'wideangle-vue'
const app = createApp(App);
app.use(WideAngle, {
siteId: "8D27G3B9ACA01F4241",
domain: "stats.example.com",
fingerprint: true,
suppressDnt: true
});
```
# Usage
The Wide Angle Analytics provides an instance of `waa` which can be then injected to your component.
```javascript
import { inject } from 'vue'
const waa = inject('waa');
```
You will find a fully functional example in this [repository](sample/vue-sample).
## Tracking Pageviews
No action necessary. The tracker script automatically issues **Page View** and **Page Leave** events.
## Tracking Events
Wide Angle supports three specialized events:
* clicks
* downloads
* custom actions
Site has to have these event enable in Wide Angle Analytics configuration prior to usage. Otherwise the tracker script will not sent these events. Consult [official documentation](https://wideangle.co/documentation/tracking-custom-actions) regarding how to enable event handling.
### Tracking Clicks
Currently **Click Events** are [emitted automatically](https://wideangle.co/documentation/tracking-click-events) based on element data attributes.
### Tracking Downloads
Depending on the configured mode, the **Download Event** will fire automatically when either:
* a file with recognized extension is being downloaded, or
* when a link is marked with `data-waa-name` attribute.
### Tracking Custom Actions
Custom action are the most flexible and can be triggered directly from Vue components. As such their usage is not limitted due to Shadow DOM.
Example:
```vue
```
# Consent Handling
By default, Wide Angle Analytics does nore require consent thanks to its privacy-first, anonymous tracking and principaled approached to compliance.
However, you have additional toggles should you wish to control consent, either in **Opt-In** or **Opt-Out** mode.
## Opt-Out by default
If the visitors browsers has `DoNotTrack` setting enabled in the browser, it will be understood as opt-out and not tracking events will be issued.
You website can't overwrite this behaviour by specifying `suppressDnt` setting.
```javascript
app.use(WideAngle, {
siteId: "8D27G3B9ACA01F4241",
suppressDnt: true
});
```
## Opt-In or Opt-Out based on Cookie
Wide Angle can be configure to handle presence of a cookie, or a cookie with specific value, as an implicit consent. Lack of the cookie will be handled as implicit opt-out.
Example configuration with cookie marker, expecting cookie name `WAA_CONSENT` with value `true`:
```javascript
app.use(WideAngle, {
siteId: "8D27G3B9ACA01F4241",
consentMarker: "WAA_CONSENT=true"
});
```
## Programmatic consent
The Wide Angle serving offers two additional methods, which allow for recording tracking consent:
- `recordConsent(subjectId: String): void`, and
- `revokeConsent()`
Calling above methods on `waa` service will overwrite other consent mechanism (ie. DoNotTrack, and cookie marker).
Example usage:
```vue
```
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