How to Integrate Rudderstack with Your Astro Site

Step-by-step guide to integrate RudderStack with your Astro site for event tracking.

This guide will help you integrate RudderStack with your Astro site using the . On successful integration, you can track and send real-time user events to your preferred destinations via RudderStack.

To set up the event stream on your Astro site, you need to perform the following steps:

Prerequisites

This guide assumes you have installed and set up your Astro site. Refer to the for more information.

Integrating the JavaScript SDK with your Astro site

Integrating the JavaScript SDK with your Astro site involves the following steps:

Creating a JavaScript source in RudderStack

The RudderStack JavaScript source is required track the events from your Astro site. Follow these steps to set it up in your :

Note the data plane URL in your RudderStack dashboard. This is required to set up the JavaScript SDK in your Astro site.

Click on the Sources button in the left navigation bar and select New Source to create a source. Then, select Event Streams under Sources, and select JavaScript.

Assign a name to your source and click Next.
Your JavaScript source is now configured. Note down the write key for this source, as shown:

Installing and configuring the JavaScript SDK in your Astro site

To integrate RudderStack with your Astro site and set up the tracking code, follow the steps below:

In your Astro project folder, navigate to src > pages and open index.astro.
Enter the following script in the <head> section of the page:

<script>
		rudderanalytics = window.rudderanalytics = [];
		var methods = [
		  "load",
		  "page",
		  "track",
		  "identify",
		  "alias",
		  "group",
		  "ready",
		  "reset",
		  "getAnonymousId",
		  "setAnonymousId",
		];
		for (var i = 0; i < methods.length; i++) {
		  var method = methods[i];
		  rudderanalytics[method] = (function (methodName) {
			return function () {
			  rudderanalytics.push(
				[methodName].concat(Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments))
			  );
			};
		  })(method);
		}
	  
		rudderanalytics.load("WRITE_KEY","DATA_PLANE_URL");
		//rudderanalytics.page();
	  </script>
	  
	  <script src="https://cdn.rudderlabs.com/v1.1/rudder-analytics.min.js"></script>

Configuring a destination in RudderStack

This section details the steps required to set up a destination platform in RudderStack, where you can send all the events tracked by the JavaScript SDK.

For this guide, Google Analytics is added as a destination.

Click on Add Destination in RudderStack dashboard's home page.
Choose Google Analytics from the list of destinations.
Assign a name to your destination and click Next.
Select the JavaScript source configured in the above section and click Next.

Google Analytics is now configured as a destination. You should be able to see the connection in your RudderStack dashboard, as seen below:

You can also set up a warehouse destination in RudderStack and send your tracked events to it.

Deploying your Astro site and verifying the event stream

To verify if your event stream is working correctly, deploy your Astro site and test if the events are tracked and delivered correctly. To do so, follow these steps:

From your terminal, navigate to your Astro project's root folder and run the following command:

npm run dev

Open the local server URL(generally http://localhost:3000/) in your browser to view the app.
Go to your browser's developer tools and check the Network tab to verify if the RudderStack JavaScript SDK (rudder-analytics.js) is loaded correctly. The following image highlights this option for the Google Chrome browser:

Click on the various links or pages in your site for RudderStack to track these actions.
Go to the Live Events tab of your JavaScript source in the RudderStack dashboard to check if the events are tracked:

You may face a minor delay before the events start showing up in your dashboard and the destination.

Upon successful tracking, you will see the events in your RudderStack dashboard:

In your Google Analytics dashboard, go to Realtime > Events to check if the events are delivered. Your tracked events will be shown in this window along with other metrics such as number of active users, source platform, etc.

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