Provide a test mode or a mock class about analytics-node

[stephenmathieson]

fwiw, here's what you could do on your end:

const Analytics = require('analytics-node')
const { NODE_ENV } = process.env
if (NODE_ENV === 'test') { // or w/e
  Analytics.prototype.flush = fn => fn()
}

[stephenmathieson]

I feel this should be documented somewhere.

I'd gladly merge a PR =)

Any idea how to do the same thing for the web js library?

I'm not technically maintainer for analytics.js, so I don't want to provide the wrong information... but on my side-projects, I stub out window.analytics fully rather than including it on my page. see https://github.com/stephenmathieson/bikeshedding.us/blob/7ac014901afe0b1b189d73e99c75b83b5d30b5ac/src/dev.html#L6-L13 for an example.

[stephenmathieson]

Yep, not a bad idea. We've got some old code that sends events to a "fake" source when we run our test suite.

I'll add something =D

[stephenmathieson]

decided against this. thanks for the suggestion tho!

[alexpanov]

@stephenmathieson could you please explain your reasoning?
We would love to have this feature too.

[stephenmathieson]

@alexpanov I began putting this together, but then decided the complexity/overhead isn't worth the gain. see #90 (comment).

[alexpanov]

@stephenmathieson Thank you sooo much! I feel this should be documented somewhere.
Any idea how to do the same thing for the web js library?