mlomb
Options to disable analytics
Hello !
In https://github.com/mlomb/chat-analytics/blob/main/assets/Plausible.ts, if we run this app self hosted, there are still data sent to your servers without any "proper" way to disable it entirely.
If you agree I can open a PR adding an env variable to disable (default enabled) analytics report.
Waiting for your green light or remarks.
I think its better to have a flag in the CLI to disable this, that sets an option in the Config object, later read by Plausible.ts
https://github.com/mlomb/chat-analytics/blob/452037f2ada3cff2fc656dc75a2938d4e3324094/lib/CLI.ts#L59
What do you think?
Maybe I don't understand everything but actually my current workflow to use your app is to install the dependencies, build the web version and serve it through a simple web server (all this with docker). How would you do to expose this app ? Run node web server with cli args without building ?
The web app of Chat Analytics is built with npm run build:web and then the folder dist_web is served statically (see BUILDING.md). If someone wants to disable analytics, they should use the CLI with an option like --disabe-analytics (does not exists right now). The web app is meant for the online app, for custom behaviour we should use the CLI.
I think custom behaviour should still be available for the app. Primarily because the app is much more intuitive and accessible than the CLI
We can include this option when we (eventually) implement report configuration in the web app
Just realised- this isn't a report-specific option, in fact iirc report pages don't have analytics anymore, so it is specifically for the site as a whole. So I don't think this needs to wait on report configuration