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

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.
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 --project-id <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. As of this skill's last verification (@temps-sdk/[email protected]), ingestKey does not exist yet — check the installed package's exported prop types before using this pattern, and if it's missing, either upgrade or fall back to a same-origin proxy route that forwards to Temps with the project resolved server-side.

The package's built-in default basePath is /api/_temps. Set basePath only when the app needs a custom same-origin proxy path, or is not hosted on Temps at all (see above).

Framework Setup

Next.js App Router (13+)

// app/layout.tsx — stays a Server Component; the provider carries its own 'use client'.
import { TempsAnalyticsProvider } from '@temps-sdk/react-analytics';

export default function RootLayout({ children }: { children: React.ReactNode }) {
  return (
    <html lang="en">
      <body>
        <TempsAnalyticsProvider basePath="/api/_temps">
          {children}
        </TempsAnalyticsProvider>
      </body>
    </html>
  );
}

Next.js Pages Router

// pages/_app.tsx
import { TempsAnalyticsProvider } from '@temps-sdk/react-analytics';
import type { AppProps } from 'next/app';

export default function App({ Component, pageProps }: AppProps) {
  return (
    <TempsAnalyticsProvider basePath="/api/_temps">
      <Component {...pageProps} />
    </TempsAnalyticsProvider>
  );
}

Vite / Create React App

// src/main.tsx
import { TempsAnalyticsProvider } from '@temps-sdk/react-analytics';

ReactDOM.createRoot(document.getElementById('root')!).render(
  <TempsAnalyticsProvider basePath="/api/_temps">
    <App />
  </TempsAnalyticsProvider>
);

Remix

// app/root.tsx
import { TempsAnalyticsProvider } from '@temps-sdk/react-analytics';

export default function App() {
  return (
    <html lang="en">
      <body>
        <TempsAnalyticsProvider basePath="/api/_temps">
          <Outlet />
        </TempsAnalyticsProvider>
      </body>
    </html>
  );
}

Provider Configuration — real props (all flat, all optional)

<TempsAnalyticsProvider
  basePath="/api/_temps"          // see "basePath" above
  domain={undefined}              // defaults to window.location.hostname
  disabled={false}                // hard off-switch (e.g. for tests)
  ignoreLocalhost={true}          // default true → silent on localhost; set false to test locally
  autoTrackPageviews={true}       // default true
  autoTrackPageLeave={true}       // default true
  pageLeaveEventName="page_leave" // default "page_leave"
  autoTrackSpeedAnalytics={true}  // default true — Web Vitals
  autoTrackEngagement={true}      // default true — heartbeats
  heartbeatInterval={30000}       // default 30000ms
  inactivityTimeout={30000}       // default 30000ms
  engagementThreshold={10000}     // default 10000ms
  enableSessionRecording={false}  // default false — see "Session Recording"
  sessionRecordingConfig={{ /* see below */ }}
>
  {children}
</TempsAnalyticsProvider>

⚠️ There is no nested autoTrack={{ ... }} prop and no debug prop. Old docs that show those are wrong.

Available Hooks

Full signatures and examples in [HOOKSREFERENCE.md](references/HOOKSREFERENCE.md).

Export	Returns	Purpose
`useTrackEvent()`	`(eventName, data?) => Promise<void>`	Custom events
`useTempsAnalytics()`	`{ trackEvent, identify, trackPageview, enabled }`	The context accessor
`useTrackPageview()`	`() => void`	Manual pageviews
`usePageLeave(options?)`	`{ triggerPageLeave }`	Page-leave / time-on-page
`useEngagementTracking(options?)`	`{ engagementData, isTracking }`	Heartbeat engagement
`useSpeedAnalytics(options?)`	`void`	Web Vitals (TTFB, LCP, FID, FCP, CLS, INP)
`useScrollVisibility(options?)`	ref callback	Fires an event when the element scrolls into view
`useAnalytics(options)`	`{ track, identify }`	⚠️ Standalone generic helper that requires `{ client }` — NOT the context accessor

⚠️ The context accessor is useTempsAnalytics(), not useAnalytics(). useAnalytics(options) is a different, generic hook that throws without a { client } argument. reset() and getVisitorId() do not exist.

Track Custom Events

'use client';
import { useTrackEvent } from '@temps-sdk/react-analytics';

function SubscribeButton() {
  const trackEvent = useTrackEvent();
  return (
    <button onClick={() => trackEvent('button_click', { button_id: 'subscribe', plan: 'premium' })}>
      Subscribe
    </button>
  );
}

Identify Users — status: NOT YET FUNCTIONAL

identify(userId, traits) is exposed on the context (useTempsAnalytics().identify), but the current SDK implements it as a no-op placeholder while the identity endpoint is unavailable. Treat identification as unsupported for now and attach user attributes as event_data on trackEvent calls instead:

'use client';
import { useTrackEvent } from '@temps-sdk/react-analytics';

const trackEvent = useTrackEvent();
trackEvent('signed_in', { user_id: user.id, plan: user.plan });

When the identity endpoint ships, switch to useTempsAnalytics().identify(...).

Session Recording

Session recording is configured on the main provider via enableSessionRecording + sessionRecordingConfig. See [SESSIONRECORDING.md](references/SESSIONRECORDING.md).

<TempsAnalyticsProvider
  basePath="/api/_temps"
  enableSessionRecording={true}
  sessionRecordingConfig={{
    maskAllInputs: true,         // default true
    sessionSampleRate: 1.0,      // 0.0–1.0, default 1.0
    excludedPaths: ['/admin'],   // paths to never record
    blockClass: 'rr-block',      // default
    maskTextClass: 'rr-mask',    // default
    ignoreClass: 'rr-ignore',    // default
  }}
>
  {children}
</TempsAnalyticsProvider>

A separate SessionRecordingProvider + useSessionRecordingControl exist for user-toggleable recording (consent flows). Their real APIs (defaultEnabled/persistPreference, and { isEnabled, enable, disable, toggle }) are documented in [SESSIONRECORDING.md](references/SESSIONRECORDING.md) — they are NOT enabled/maskAllInputs/startRecording.

Verification Checklist

On localhost: with ignoreLocalhost default true you'll see nothing — expected. Temporarily set ignoreLocalhost={false} to verify wiring.
DevTools → Network: confirm POSTs to /api/_temps/event (and /speed, /heartbeat) on navigation and interaction.
Confirm responses are 2xx (when Temps-hosted, the proxy accepts them from any host).
Check the Temps dashboard for incoming events / Web Vitals / session replays.
Run the project's existing local typecheck script (for example,

npm run typecheck -- --noEmit). Do not use npx, because it may download and execute a package when the expected local binary is absent.

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SKILL.md

Add React Analytics

Installation

Two things to know before wiring it up

basePath: what to set

Framework Setup

Next.js App Router (13+)

Next.js Pages Router

Vite / Create React App

Remix

Provider Configuration — real props (all flat, all optional)

Available Hooks

Track Custom Events

Identify Users — status: NOT YET FUNCTIONAL

Session Recording

Verification Checklist