add-react-analytics

Add React Analytics

Integrate the @temps-sdk/react-analytics SDK into a React application.

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Installation

npm install --ignore-scripts --save-exact @temps-sdk/[email protected]

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Peer deps: React 18 or 19 (react, react-dom).

Two things to know before wiring it up

1. The package already ships 'use client' at the top of its build. In the Next.js App Router you import TempsAnalyticsProvider directly into your Server Component layout.tsx — you do not need to author your own 'use client' wrapper component around it.
2. ignoreLocalhost defaults to true → the SDK sends nothing while running on localhost. Correct for production, but it means you see no network requests in local dev. Pass ignoreLocalhost={false} only when you explicitly want to test locally.

basePath: what to set

The SDK POSTs to ${basePath}/event, ${basePath}/speed, ${basePath}/heartbeat, and session replay to ${basePath}/session-replay (via sendBeacon, falling back to keepalive fetch).

• App deployed on Temps → no basePath is required. The SDK default is /api/_temps, and the Temps proxy treats /api/_temps/* as a public ingest path: it bypasses the auth gate from any host and routes to the platform's analytics handlers. No app-side route handler is needed.
• App NOT on Temps (Vercel, Netlify, static hosting, anywhere else) → there is no Host-based route-table entry for Temps to resolve a project from, so pointing basePath at an absolute Temps URL is not enough by itself; the request also needs a project-scoped analytics ingest key (pa_...) so the server can identify which project the event belongs to.
  1. Set basePath to the absolute URL of the Temps instance's ingest endpoint, e.g. basePath="https://your-temps-instance.example.com/api/_temps".
  2. Mint a key in the Console (Project → Analytics → Setup → "Not hosted on Temps") or with bunx @temps-sdk/cli analytics keys create -p <project-slug-or-id>, and pass it as ingestKey="pa_...".
  3. The key is not a secret — it's designed to ship in client-side JS, same as a Sentry DSN public key.

  Requires an SDK version with ingestKey support. Check the installed package's exported prop types before using this pattern; if ingestKey is missing, either upgrade or fall back to a same-origin proxy route that forwards to Temps with the project resolved server-side.