Boba.js: a JavaScript library for Google Analytics

http://boba.space150.com

by athaeryn • 12 years ago

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bshimmin• 12 years ago

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

antjanus• 12 years ago

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! :)

gk12• 12 years ago

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

Grum• 12 years ago

I was thinking the same...

iamchrisle• 12 years ago

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.

james33• 12 years ago

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

athaeryn2• 12 years ago

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. :)

bckmn2• 12 years ago

See my comment above on my non-jQuery version. Very lightweight (<3kb).

bckmn2• 12 years ago

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

ybv• 12 years ago

This is pretty sweet, actually.

timboslice• 12 years ago

Awesome abstraction. Loving the "watch" feature

basicallydan• 12 years ago

Looks great! Why "Boba" though? Just a fan of the bounty hunter?

athaeryn2• 12 years ago

Thanks! A fan, and since he tracks things in space it seemed like enough of a connection. :)

Boba.js: a JavaScript library for Google Analytics

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