Angular 4+ using Google Analytics

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First of all, you need to install typings for Google Analytics in your devDependencies

npm install --save-dev @types/google.analytics

Then add your tracking code in the base index.html, and remove the last line as shown bellow:

<body>
  <app-root>Loading...</app-root>
  <script>
    (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){
        (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),
      m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)
    })(window,document,'script','https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');

    ga('create', 'UA-XXXXXX-ID', 'auto');  // <- add the UA-ID 
                                           // <- remove the last line 
  </script>
</body>

The next step consists to update your home component constructor for event tracking.

constructor(public router: Router) {
    this.router.events.subscribe(event => {
      if (event instanceof NavigationEnd) {
        ga('set', 'page', event.urlAfterRedirects);
        ga('send', 'pageview');
      }
    });
  }

If you want to track some specific event, you can also create a service and inject it into any component that you want to implement event tracking.

// ./src/app/services/google-analytics-events-service.ts

import {Injectable} from "@angular/core";

@Injectable()
export class GoogleAnalyticsEventsService {

  public emitEvent(eventCategory: string,
                   eventAction: string,
                   eventLabel: string = null,
                   eventValue: number = null) {
    ga('send', 'event', { eventCategory, eventLabel, eventAction, eventValue });
  }
}

So if you want track a click on your home component for example, all you need to do is to inject the GoogleAnalyticsEventsService and call the emitEvent() method.

The updated home component source code:

constructor(public router: Router, public googleAnalyticsEventsService: GoogleAnalyticsEventsService) {
    this.router.events.subscribe(event => {
      if (event instanceof NavigationEnd) {
        ga('set', 'page', event.urlAfterRedirects);
        ga('send', 'pageview');
      }
    });
  }
  submitEvent() { // event fired from home.component.html element (button, link, ... )
    this.googleAnalyticsEventsService.emitEvent("testCategory", "testAction", "testLabel", 10);
  }

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