gatsby-plugin-panelbear

Easily add Panelbear analytics to a Gatsby site. Configured to work in SPA mode and track page events.

Panelbear is a analytics provider that emphasises simplicity, speed, and privacy.

Install

Yarn:

yarn add gatsby-plugin-panelbear

NPM:

npm install --save gatsby-plugin-panelbear

Usage

In your gatsby-config.js file, include:

{
  resolve: `gatsby-plugin-panelbear`,
  options: {
    siteID: 'YOUR_SITE_ID',
  },
}

Options

Option	Required?	Default	Information
siteID	yes	n/a	Your Site ID as provided in the Site Settings page of Panelbear.
debug	no	false	Write Panelbear log messages to the browser console and send events from localhost to panelbear. Please do not enable in production.
autoTrack	no	true	By default, page events are sent when the route updates. Disable for finer grained control over when page view events are sent.

Notes

Custom Events

You can use window.panelbear('track', 'MyCustomEvent') to send an event. See the Panelbear Docs for information on the events API.

Use alongside Panelbear.js

Panelbear also provides an npm package for loading the script and interacting with Panelbear. This package is preferable to the plugin if you need types, or want to tailor Panelbear for your specific use case.

For the time being, you can use panelbear-js alongside this plugin. You can load the script through the plugin, and use the library for calls such as Panelbear.track('MyEvent'). Do not call Panelbear.load() if you have the plugin installed. This is not intentional functionality and shouldn't be counted on in production.

FAQ and Docs

Please see the Panelbear Documentation for explanation of the Panelbear API.