@smartlook/nodejs-sdk NPM

Smartlook Node.js SDK

This small zero-dependency library can be used to send custom events to Smartlook from your backend Node.js services.

These events can be then views in the events tab and you can use them to create funnels.

If you need to use these events to filter the recordings, you have to send smartlook.vid and smartlook.sid provided by the frontend Smartlook library in the request to your backend service.

However it is not required and you can use the events to track something not related to the user sessions or someting that happens outside of user session. Set the event vid to whatever you want to be identified as a source of the event (eg. your internal user id or job id).

You could have for example a background sequence of jobs that should trigger a user activity in the end. You can track with Smartlook how successful this process is. Such case would be checking last user activity on your web, sending an email to remind them your service or let them know about some news and the last event would be user login.

Usage

$ npm install @smartlook/nodejs-sdk

const smartlook = require('@smartlook/nodejs-sdk')

// set the key directly or with SMARTLOOK_KEY env variable
smartlook.init({
	key: '<PROJECT KEY>',
})

smartlook.event({
	vid: '<SOURCE ID>',
	name: '<EVENT NAME>',
})

Check out a bit more comprehensive example.

API

smartlook.init

Initializes the SDK with your deploy key and starts batch uploading of the events every flushIntervalMillis.

Parameter	Environment variable	Default	Allowed
key	SMARTLOOK_KEY	null	string
flushIntervalMillis	SMARTLOOK_FLUSH_INTERVAL_MILLIS	10000	integer
logLevel	SMARTLOOK_LOG_LEVEL	error	mute/trace/debug/info/error

smartlook.stop

Uploads pending events and stops recording of new events.

smartlook.event

Creates a new custom event.

Parameter	Type	Description
vid	string	(required) Event source entity identifier
name	string	(required) Event name
value	string	Event value
props	object	Event key/value properties
sid	string	User session id obtained from the frontend Smarltook library