How to add google analytics in electron?

@aubrey 

To add Google Analytics in an Electron app, you can follow these steps:

1. If you haven't already, sign up for a Google Analytics account and create a new tracking ID for your Electron app.
2. Install the official google-analytics package by running the following command in your Electron project directory:

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npm install --save google-analytics

1. In your Electron main process file (usually named main.js or index.js), import the google-analytics package:

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const analytics = require('google-analytics');

1. Initialize the Google Analytics tracker with your tracking ID and options. You can do this in a function that gets called when the app starts up:

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const tracker = new analytics.GoogleAnalytics('YOUR_TRACKING_ID', {
  appName: 'Your App Name',
  appVersion: '1.0.0'
});

1. Track events or page views in your Electron app by calling the trackEvent or trackPageView functions on the tracker object. Here's an example of tracking a page view when the app window is loaded:

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const { app, BrowserWindow } = require('electron');

let mainWindow;

app.on('ready', () => {
  // Create the browser window
  mainWindow = new BrowserWindow({ width: 800, height: 600 });

  // Load the index.html page
  mainWindow.loadFile('index.html');

  // Track the page view
  tracker.trackPageView('Main Window');
});

1. Make sure to include the Google Analytics tracking code in the HTML files of your Electron app. You can either directly add the Google Analytics tracking code to all HTML files or dynamically inject it using JavaScript.
2. Run your Electron app and navigate through the different pages to track events and page views in Google Analytics.

That's it! You have now successfully added Google Analytics tracking to your Electron app. Make sure to test and verify that the tracking data is being correctly sent to your Google Analytics account.