Mixpanel VS Next.js

You can test sales copy with Mixpanel to see where your traffic is coming from so you can see which content (Informative or promotional) generates the most engagement.

Custom Data Collection As you grow you can consider a bit more precise configurations and data analytics approachs. Implement custom data collection through or event tracking for example via Mixpanel. This allows you to capture specific metrics tailored to your product's unique needs

11. Mixpanel

Add analytics event with Mixpanel:

I am looking into whether you have experienced any pain points or issues not solved by current analytics platforms. By current solutions I'm talking plausible.io, mixpanel.com, usermaven.com and alike, providing features such as: total visitors, page views, online users, custom events tracking, top sources.

Ten years ago, there was a popular Ask HN: "what's your startup’s analytics setup?” [0]. Like the poster then (malandrew), I have the same problem in 2023: Selecting analytics solutions for the startup I'm working at has proven to be more daunting than I imagined.

There are many services to choose from and it's not immediately obvious how you should choose from the many offerings to get not only complete analytics coverage but also do so in a way where you can integrate them all to get a complete picture without any mismatch.

There is too much marketing speech copy on the sites of many analytics startups to properly evaluate them without wasting time and effort to signup, configure and use each one long enough to understand the value they provide.

Off the top of my head, there are services like Segment [1], Amplitude [2], Mixpanel [3], Trackingplan [4], Avo [5], Posthog [6], Freshpaint [7], etc.

So ten years later, what are the must-have analytics solutions for startups? What are the best tools for bringing in all the data from the different analytics tools? How should Engineering, Product and Data work together around analytics?

The more details you can provide the better.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4707903

[1]: https://segment.com

[2]: https://amplitude.com

[3]: https://mixpanel.com

[4]: https://www.trackingplan.com

[5]: https://www.avo.app

[6]: https://posthog.com

[7]: https://www.freshpaint.io

Mixpanel is a truly impressive product analytics tool that can provide rich insights to engineering, product, and marketing teams alike. Server-side Mixpanel integrations are able to produce an extremely reliable analytics layer with highly consistent event tracking. Deeply integrating Mixpanel in this way enables you to fully analyze your product and discover useful insights.

Website: https://mixpanel.com

For example, we all know advanced analytics systems such as Mixpanel or Amplitude, which are fundamentally the same. The implementation of these products requires the help of the developer, so the product that communicates clearly with the developer through clear documentation or tutorials can capture a large market share.

Vite and Next.js are both top 5 modern development framework right now. They are both great depending on your use case so we’ll discuss 4 areas: Architecture, main features, developer experience and production readiness. After learning about these we’ll have a better idea of which one is best for your project.

> It’s important to be aware of what you are getting if you go with React, and what you are getting is a far cry from what a framework would offer, with all the corresponding pros and cons.

Would you like to elaborate on that?

In my experience, with something as great, size/ecosystem-wise as React, there will almost always be at least one "mainstream" package for whatever you might want to do with it, that integrates pretty well. Where a lot of things might come out of the box with a framework, with a library I often find myself just needing to install the "right" package, and from there it's pretty much the same.

For example, using https://angular.io/guide/i18n-overview or installing and using https://react.i18next.com/

Or something like https://angular.io/guide/form-validation out of the box, vs installing and using https://formik.org/

Or perhaps https://angular.io/guide/router vs https://reactrouter.com/en/main

Even adding something that's not there out of the box is pretty much the same, like https://primeng.org/ or https://primereact.org/

React will typically have more fragmentation and therefore also choice, but I don't see those two experiences as that different. Updates and version management/supply chain will inevitably be more of a mess with the library, admittedly.

Now, projects like Next https://nextjs.org/ exist and add what some might regard as the missing pieces and work well if you want something opinionated and with lots of features out of the box, but a lot of those features (like SSR) are actually pretty advanced and not always even necessary.

Next.js: For the website and the admin dashboard

Until the time of writing, there is no official example of how to enable runtime environmental variables in a Dockerized Next.js app, as utilizing unstable_noStore would only dynamically evaluate variables on the server (node.js runtime). There is also an interesting discussion regarding this topic on GitHub.

next.js is a very popular React framework. remix-adonisjs includes more functionality through the AdonisJS backend ecosystem, and should be easier to self-host and self-manage.

Cheryl Murphy is not only a dedicated full-stack web developer skilled in technologies like React, Next.js, and NestJs but also a community-driven professional who recently took on the role of volunteer project team lead at Web Dev Path. With a dual Bachelor's degree in Computing and Chemical Engineering from Monash University, Cheryl’s journey in tech is marked by a passion for building accessible solutions and a commitment to fostering community within tech.

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