Rename @segment/analytics-node to @segment/analytics-javascript

[gajus]

Based on @silesky 's comments in this thread, looks like @segment/analytics-node is perfectly fine to be used in browser.

https://github.com/segmentio/analytics-next/issues/771#issuecomment-1386987317

We want to minimize tracking impact on our website and we are considering several things:

• disabling loading of device-mode destinations (looks like this would be the default with @segment/analytics-node)
• adopting Partytown (looks like this @segment/analytics-node is better designed for this)

We will try to replace @segment/analytics-next with @segment/analytics-node for these reasons, but I wanted to flag that the current package name is causing confusion as we are adding this to React application.

[silesky]

@gajus Thanks for your comment. This is good feedback and a good future data point, and is actually something we thought about. I totally understand the ugliness. (FTR also considered analytics-fetch). Ultimately, here is what drove us to retain the node label was practical considerations:

• we were deprecating the OG 'analytics-node', so the path of least resistance was to use a similar name (SEO, support). Overwhelmingly, people use this lib in node.
• From the outset, we were mainly thinking about CF workers and server-environments. There are certain features that are server specific, like OAuth, and the 'batch-by-default' is a server convention. Node is still 'synonymous' with js on the server (even though that's changing, as it's got many competitors).
• Some other companies like stripe folded support for non-node runtimes into their node SDK, so I didn't feel like it was totally off-base.

Ultimately, this is something that we're still open to. I've even mulled the idea of retaining analytics-node and adding another library like 'analytics-javascript' (like a base library) or 'analytics-web-worker' (maybe just a thin wrapper around analytics node).

[gajus]

I've even mulled the idea of retaining analytics-node and adding another library like 'analytics-javascript' (like a base library) or 'analytics-web-worker' (maybe just a thin wrapper around analytics node).

This would be the preferred option overall. However, also the biggest overhead. So just being respectful of the effort when composing my suggestions/asks.

[gajus]

Also used this post as sort of sanity validation to ensure that we are not way off-course by adopting this in browser. Seems like not the case.