Node.js example not working

Hi, this seems like a great library and it is exactly what I need for my project. However, I can’t get it to work in my node.js application. Even the basic example from the documentation is not working for me:

const analyticsLib = require('analytics').default
const googleAnalytics = require('@analytics/google-analytics').default

const analytics = analyticsLib({
  app: 'my-app-name',
  plugins: [
    googleAnalytics({
      trackingId: '123-xyz'
    })
  ]
})

/* Track a page view */
analytics.page()

Using analytics.page() throws an error (Error: Missing path, href or title in page call for GA). If I do the following:

analytics.page({
    title: 'test',
    href: 'http://localhost:3000',
    path: '/'
})

the code runs, but I don’t see any page event in Google Analytics. And of course, I replaced the trackingId from the sample code with my own.

Any hints that can help me to get page views tracked?

Thanks!

[markojak]

A few tings:

1. Enable debug: true just under “app” - If you are seeing that https://getanalytics.io/debugging/ is giving you the page() hit then the analytics module is working and you’re trying to do something non-standard

2. Have you installed the relevant packages? You’ll need

import Analytics from 'analytics'
import googleAnalytics from '@analytics/google-analytics'

1. You don’t need to specify any custom attributes for the page() call. What it seems like you’re doing is attempting to define custom dimensions without first defining them in GA? Read this: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/custom-dims-mets

[DavidWells]

When using just page() I keep getting ‘Error: Missing path, href or title in page call for GA’. Just FYI.

Yep those are required from the underlying lib https://github.com/DavidWells/analytics/blob/master/packages/analytics-plugin-google-analytics/src/node.js#L59