Automatically following the route changes ?

[Glideh]

Thanks for this nice project
I'm using the version 3.0.1 with Vue 3.3.11

I didn't get something though:
With my router passed in the vueRouter option

app.use(createGtm({
    id: gtmId,
    vueRouter: router
}))

Is vue-gtm supposed to track the route changes already ? Or do I need to watch them manually ?

[Shinigami92]

See

vue-gtm/src/index.ts

Line 121 in 5268e63

function initVueRouterGuard(

for details

There is an afterEach listener that executes trackView on route change

You can also turn on debug option and open browser console

[Glideh]

Understood, that's what I was thinking.
So I'm going to try to debug that, thanks.

[Glideh]

@Shinigami92 debug enabled I'm seeing the Dispatching Trackview with the correct params on the console but I don't see any ajax request going out, is that expected ?
Shouldn't I see a request to google servers on each route change ?

[Shinigami92]

1. just enabling debug is not guaranteeing that something works, because enabling also is importing

https://github.com/gtm-support/core/blob/1ec51bc62fd192d49f18ad7a65535d19998a1705/src/gtm-support.ts#L170-L171

If debug mode is enabled, a "Dispatching TrackView" is logged, regardless of whether the plugin is enabled or the plugin is being executed in browser context.

2. I'm not quite sure, I think Google is somehow reading from window.dataLayer, but I'm not sure if a call is made 🤔
   I encourage you to just look a bit more into the source code and explore it, because it is not that much

[Glideh]

because enabling also is importing

You mean it should be enabled, right ?
But it's enabled by default isn't it ?

I'll try to check the source too.

[Glideh]

Ok I see the conditions, so it should push the event.
https://github.com/gtm-support/core/blob/1ec51bc62fd192d49f18ad7a65535d19998a1705/src/gtm-support.ts#L182-L183
I'll check on the GTM backend, maybe the events are coming.

[Glideh]

Yes events are actually incoming, I don't understand how, I don't see any ajax, web socket or other kind of requests. This seems magic :)

[Shinigami92]

Google is watching you 😶‍🌫️