hexpm VS Plausible Analytics

I was thinking of porting this library to Elixir. But first, I searched on hex.pm and Surprising. I found two packages that support merging tailwind classes: twix and tails

I often reference https://github.com/hexpm/hexpm which is the code behind hex.pm.

Feel free to take a look at the package manager and let me know if there are any libraries that you need that are missing. https://hex.pm/

I can assure you I'm not spending my time inventing new libraries. In the past 3 or so years of working in Elixir there have been maybe 2 or 3 cases where I was looking for a library and couldn't find a suitable one. Writing my own code to cover those cases took a few hours. This should hardly be a deal breaker for anyone if you take into account dozens, maybe even hundreds of hours the ecosystem could save you in the long run if your project is a good fit for it.

Before getting started you need to have both Elixir, the Hex package manager, the PostgreSQL relational database server and Node.js installed on your local computer to be able to follow through this guide.

We can then look at that function and see that ultimately it calls Supervisor.start_link(...) on a bunch of children. That means that one process's only job is to start up all those child processes and "supervise" them, meaning if any of them crash it will be notified and be able to handle that. I note that one of the processes runs the code in the module Hexpm.RepoBase which means it's in charge of managing database connections, and one runs the code in the module HexpmWeb.Endpoint which is the process in charge of managing the Phoenix side of things, handling incoming requests, spinning up new processes to handle each one, and directing them to the right controllers and stuff. Then there's a bunch of other modules listed, for things like rate limiting, billing reports, and other stuff. You can look in the codebase for those listed modules if you're interested, but the thing to note is that by putting the module name there, what happens is the supervisor will spawn a new process and run the start_link function of that module within that new process.

I was looking for a solution to run tests automatically every time I save any changes. The best way so far for me is the following hex package:

API server and website for Hex https://github.com/hexpm/hexpm

Dependency Current Latest Status bunt 0.2.0 0.2.0 Up-to-date cowlib 2.11.0 2.11.0 Up-to-date credo 1.6.1 1.6.3 Update possible db_connection 2.4.1 2.4.1 Up-to-date decimal 2.0.0 2.0.0 Up-to-date earmark_parser 1.4.19 1.4.20 Update possible postgrex 0.15.13 0.16.2 Update not possible To view the diffs in each available update, visit: https://hex.pm/l/AsY7q

Now it’s time to decide on a name for your package. In this guide I will be creating a new Ueberauth package. If you were to go on http://hex.pm and look at other Ueberauth packages, you notice there is a certain pattern followed. This will make the decision easy for us on what to call our Uberauth package that will implement the Patreon OAuth flow.

Go to the website https://hex.pm and search for the faker library to grab the latest version, so you can copy that to your mix config file, at the time of the making of this tutorial the latest version is 0.17.0, add the following to your project dependencies inside your mix.exs file:

I think a single Google Analytics alternative is pretty hard to pick considering that GA can be used to very much varying extents.

For simple and "detailed enough" insights, I enjoyed using Plausible (https://plausible.io/) in the past.

For more in depth analytics that give you a detailed view into your own product, PostHog.com seems to be by far the best and most popular option out there.

I could do the same exercise with Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager, but luckily I don't need to, since Plausible already did. A piece of advice, rip out Google Analytics and use Plausible instead. It first of all doesn't destroy your website, and secondly it doesn't violate the GDPR - So you can embed it on your site without having to warn your visitors about that they're being spied on by Google.

Also, currently we are using https://plausible.io/ for analytics. No other bugs.

I just swapped out Google Analytics with Plausible for AINIRO.IO. It’s only been a week, but so far I am super jazzed about it. First of all, Plausible doesn’t use cookies, so I can completely drop all cookie disclaimers and popups I had because of GDPR. Second of all, the site scores significantly better on load time. This results in a 10x better user experience for my website visitors, while making sure the website is still 100% conforming to GDPR laws.

No clue what you mean, browser cache might even clear itself without you doing anything manually. This thing makes no sense.

Nowhere ever did it say Tech Demo anywhere, not in the HN headline, not on the page itself. No, thanks. And even as a tech demo, there is nothing impressive going in. It is stores shit to local storage, I guess. Lol, I just looked this up, and it was in Firefox on 2009 already? WHAT? https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/loca... I never used it myself directly, but I remember reading about some API that kind of is the new version of cookies that can store more and better and I think that is it. 2009, I would swear what I think about was newer, maybe I am mixing something up, maybe not.

It has unnecessarily tracking from the comment above, not sure if it even sends all your notes to https://plausible.io, and I do not care. For me, this fails as a tech demo or whatever the fuck It's supposed to be. Sorry to not get all excited about everything posted here. In 2009 it for sure would ;)

If you already use Posthog, Web Analytics has been in Public Beta for quite some time.[1]

If I remember correctly, CloudFlare Analytics does not need you to register your domain with them. I personally feel keeping domain registration coupled with your DNS provider is not a good idea.

Plausible[2] has an Open Source self-hostable version but is not so updated in sync with their SaaS version.

Umami[3] is another simple, clean one. And, of course, as many have suggested, Matomo is the other well-established one. If you want to avoid maintaining a hosting routine, a lot do the hosting out of the box these days. PikaPods[4] was good when I tried and played around for a while.

1. https://posthog.com/docs/web-analytics

2. https://github.com/plausible/analytics

3. https://umami.is

4. https://www.pikapods.com

Plausible - Open Source Alternative to Google Analytics

There are many good, lightweight, and open-source alternatives to Google Analytics, such as Plausible, Matomo, Fathom, Simple Analytics, and so on. Many of these options are open-source, and can be self-hosted.

You log the IP address, referrer, user agent and the requested page URL but you don't set a unique cookie to identify the user.

This still gets you plenty of actionable analytics information: where geographically people are located (via GeoIP), what pages are most popular, what platforms (including desktop vs mobile) people are using.

I've been using https://plausible.io for analytics on a bunch of my sites for a couple of years now and I honestly don't miss the extra level of detail I got from cookie-based analytics I've used in the past.