Closed jamesdh closed 6 years ago
Any opinion for or against this @jaketrent?
Hey @jamesdh . Yeah, thanks for the followup.
There are so many cool, interesting scripts that one might put on in their html that I'm hesitant to add support for a specific library/feature at this point. I'm more inclined to use the more general scripts
option.
What do you think about that?
I would normally agree and understand your take on that. The only reason I suggest this addition is because Google Tag Manager also gives you Google Analytics, and a whole lot more. It supersedes GA and gives you a lot more general purpose functionality and power features. If it were me, I'd include GTM over GA, but I also realize a lot of people prefer the complete simplicity of pure GA. GTM does require a bit more setup on Google's side via their Tag Manager dashboard.
I'm not sure it's possible to support GTM with the templates current config options, given it needs to be loaded before any other resources and also requires the use of a noscript/iframe tag at the beginning of the body. It's not as simple as a script option like GA is.
@jamesdh Thanks to @holyfirexx's #62 implementing my #51, you can now inject custom HTML, which you may be able to use for Google Tag Manager code.
With generic html snippet injection now possible, I'm going to consider this covered. Please reopen and let me know if not, and we can start the convo back up.
Similar to current support for Google Analytics. Fixes jaketrent/html-webpack-template#52
For those not in the know, GTM can be used to inject Google Analytics and a number of other services. It allows our analytics and marketing people to easily add or remove tools as needed, and we've used it in the past for Google Analytics, Mixpanel, Intercom, etc.