Update Google Analytics

[tomsaleeba]

Looks like GA (Google Analytics) is moving to a new version, with breaking changes: https://blog.google/products/marketingplatform/analytics/prepare-for-future-with-google-analytics-4/.

We use the vue-analtyics library to integrate with GA (included here in package.json). The library is initialised here.

We want analytics to keep working, so as part of this ticket

• look at what's changing with the GA update
• see if vue-analytics supports the new version
• do whatever is required in the GA web console to opt-in to the update for our project
• update vue-analytics if required
• make any other code changes if required
• if the GA tracking code (looks like UA-28330154-1) needs to change, you can update the env var that's injected as part of the build in CircleCI

[tomsaleeba]

Looks like https://www.npmjs.com/package/vue-analytics is deprecated

Sorry but vue-analytics is no longer maintained. I would suggest you switch to vue-gtag, with love, the guy who made the package.

Looking at https://github.com/MatteoGabriele/vue-gtag, it seems

• v2 needs vue3
• v1 can work with vue2, but need to check if it supports the new GA thingy we're updating to

If none of this is any good, we can search for other options. Either moving away from GA or looking for other ways to integrate GA with our app.