Doesn't seem to work for browsers? about universal-analytics

[dominykas]

There's no support for the client side, but why would you use this in the browser instead of the real deal?

[adam-lynch]

I was wondering if this was possible too (with browserify instead of webpack). Why?

• Our Web app exists in a NW.js desktop app (formerly node-webkit) so all URLs are file:// URLs and typical Google Analytics wouldn't work I'm told.
• On the Web, our Web app exists on loads of subdomains (and even across a few domains) so using this might be easier than doing it with some hacked from of a GA snippet, if it's even possible.
• Our Web app exists in Android & iOS apps in a WebView. Typical GA wouldn't work there either I'm told. We'd have to reach out of the WebView, call Java / Objective-C functions to send events to GA.

Even though with a typical GA Web set up, it would automatically track page views, etc. it still might be less hassle to manually send events to GA via this module (browserified). I.e. the same code for the Web, desktop and mobile.

[unindented]

I have the same use case as @adam-lynch. Would replacing request with something like superagent solve this?

[mattdesl]

There is also nets which uses request in Node, and xhr when browserified.