Creepx

Declarative user event tracking system. :squirrel:

TODO

• Add minimum distance to creepmove and shakemove
• Finish docs

What

Creepx attaches event listeners to the supplied DOM element, then fires your callback with event payload when various events occur.

Put a JSON string into the data-creepx attribute onto DOM elements you want to track and the data will be attached to your events.

Note: events that had stopPropagation called on them will not be registered.

Example

HTML:

<button data-creepx='{"id":"pressbutton"}'>
  Press
</button>

JS:

import creep from 'creepx';
 
creep(document, payload => {
  // do stuff with payload
});

When a user clicks on the button, your callback will receive the following payload:

const payload = {
  event: 'click',
  data: {
    id: 'pressbutton',
  },
};

You can then send the data to your log server!

Events

You can import the following functions:

import {
  creepClicks,    // click events
  creepMousemove, // mousemove events
  creepKeydown,   // keydown events
  creepClipboard, // clipboard events
  creepWheel,     // wheel events
  creepSelect,    // select events
} from "creepx";

If you just want to track everything, import default:

import creep from "creepx"; // yolo

Click

Located in creepClicks.

• click
• doubleclick
• multiclick

Mousemove

Located in creepMousemove.

• creepmove
• shakemove

Keydown

Located in creepKeydown.

• keydown

Clipboard

Located in creepClipboard.

• cut
• copy
• paste

Wheel

Located in creepWheel.

• scroll

Select

Located in creepSelect.

• select

Dependencies

• rxjs >= 5

API

The package exports a set of functions as well as a default function with two parameters:

• target - the DOM element to which should events be attached
• callback - the callback to fire when an event happens

Example

import creep, { creepClicks } from 'creepx';
 
// track everything happening on document if it has 'data-creepx' on it
creep(document, payload => {
  if (payload.data) {
    fetch('http://localhost:8081/logstash', {
      method: 'POST',
      body: JSON.stringify(payload),
    });
  }
});
 
// track clicks on this specific button extra
const btn = document.getElementById("trackme")
creepClicks(btn, payload => {
  fetch('http://localhost:8081/trackme', {
    method: 'POST',
    body: JSON.stringify(payload),
  });
})

License

MIT