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AngularJS Deployment Essentials

By : Zachariah Moreno
Book Image

AngularJS Deployment Essentials

By: Zachariah Moreno

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (15 chapters)
AngularJS Deployment Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Adding support to Google Analytics


Adding Google Analytics to a web application is typically a straightforward process. However, when you make the jump to a Single Page Application (SPA) framework, such as AngularJS, things get a little more complicated for Google Analytics. Because of Angular's ng-view directive (within your index.html) injecting content upon route changes, the tracking necessary for Google Analytics does not get updated upon such events. Luckily, Angular's community has stepped up to this challenge and produced a third-party module called angular-google-analytics that resolves the challenges faced in this endeavor. The angular-google-analytics module resolves our worries by providing a service that sends a new pageview event to Google Analytics whenever your Angular application's $location.path() changes.

Setting up the angular-google-analytics module

I'll assume that you already have a Google account with a Google Analytics site set up and ready to receive data. This means...