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Installation

JavaScript Real User Monitoring with Raygun is available using the Raygun4JS provider.

Raygun4JS is a library that you can easily add to your website or web application, which will then monitor your application and display all JavaScript errors and frontend performance issues affecting your users within your Raygun account. Installation is painless.

The provider is a single script which includes the sole dependency, allowing you to drop it straight in. It is also available as a script snippet which loads the library from Raygun's CDN.

Frameworks

If you use a JavaScript framework, visit the following links for step by step instructions on how you can integrate Raygun.

Step 1 - Add the Raygun4JS script

There are two installation methods for Raygun4JS. Through a package manager like NPM and Yarn, or through our CDN.

Install Raygun via NPM.

NPM

npm install raygun4js

Yarn

yarn add raygun4js

Bun

bun add raygun4js

Add the following snippet to the beginning of the <head> tag within your markup. Please include this snippet before any other <script> tag references are made to ensure that Raygun has the best chance to capture all error events on the page.

<script type="text/javascript">
  !function(a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h){a.RaygunObject=e,a[e]=a[e]||function(){
  (a[e].o=a[e].o||[]).push(arguments)},f=b.createElement(c),g=b.getElementsByTagName(c)[0],
  f.async=1,f.src=d,g.parentNode.insertBefore(f,g),h=a.onerror,a.onerror=function(b,c,d,f,g){
  h&&h(b,c,d,f,g),g||(g=new Error(b)),a[e].q=a[e].q||[],a[e].q.push({
  e:g})}}(window,document,"script","//cdn.raygun.io/raygun4js/raygun.min.js","rg4js");
</script>

The above snippet will fetch the Raygun4JS script from our CDN asynchronously so it doesn't block the page load. It will also catch errors that are thrown while the page is loading, and send them when the script is ready.

Alternatively, you can download the production script (minified) or the development script (full source). Note: If you encounter a situation where no events are appearing within Raygun, you may need to hard code the protocol so that the CDN matches your hosting environment. This could look like one of the following -

  • https://cdn.raygun.io/raygun4js/raygun.min.js
  • http://cdn.raygun.io/raygun4js/raygun.min.js

This will be in replacement of //cdn.raygun.io/raygun4js/raygun.min.js.

Step 2 - Enable Real User Monitoring

Depending on how you have added Raygun4js in your application, setting up Crash Reporting will be different. Below are examples for the two most common use cases. These snippets will set up Raygun4js to automatically send application usage statistics to Raygun.

Add the following lines underneath the previous code in Step 1.

<script type="text/javascript">
  rg4js('apiKey', 'paste_your_api_key_here');
  rg4js('enablePulse', true); // Enables Real User Monitoring
</script>

Import the Raygun4JS provider into your application inside of App.js (or equivalent for your framework) and activate real user monitoring.

import rg4js from 'raygun4js';

rg4js('apiKey', 'paste_your_api_key_here');
rg4js('enablePulse', true);

Setup user tracking by providing the following information to the Raygun4JS provider after the previous code snippet.

rg4js('setUser', {
  identifier: 'users_email_address_or_unique_id',
  isAnonymous: false,
  email: 'users_email_address@domain.com',
  firstName: 'Firstname',
  fullName: 'Firstname Lastname'
});

The string properties on a User have a maximum length of 255 characters. Users who have fields that exceed this amount will not be processed.

When a user has logged out of your application, you can remove their data from all subsequent events like so:

rg4js('endSession');

rg4js('setUser', {
  isAnonymous: true
});

Single Page Applications

Raygun's Real User Monitoring supports single page applications (SPAs) through the trackEvent function:

rg4js('trackEvent', {
  type: 'pageView',
  path: '/' + window.location.pathname
});

When a route or view change is triggered in your SPA, the trackEvent method should be called with type being pageView and path set to a string representing the new view or route. Timing information from this point onwards will be associated to a new "virtual page", which is then viewable in Raygun.

You can track custom performance measurements across your website or application using custom timings. For example, you might track the time it takes for a specific video to play or the search bar to load. Custom timings gives you the flexibility to track the timing of events that matter to your users or business.

For more information see our documentation on custom timings.

For advanced setup instructions please refer to the Advanced Features documentation page.

Optional - Enable Crash Reporting

Enable Crash Reporting to also track errors and exceptions occurring in your website.

<script type="text/javascript">
  rg4js('enableCrashReporting', true);
</script>

The provider is open source and available at the Raygun4js repository.

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