Josh Lind
Seattle Drupal developer who likes art and music.
Semi Anonymous
scalable, localStorage,
UX goodies
Scenarios
When it's ok, when it's not?
filter choices
recommendations
Can a site know you better than yourself?
hypothetical: DrupalCon
Entirely profiling driven.
hypothetical: Netflix
hypothetical: Coachella
Need
OMG, caching.
Drupal treats all anonymous users the same (mostly).
The Drupal data storage go-to is mySQL
(SOLR, memcache)
Neat
Session-only data at any scale.
More rich "cookie-ish" storage.
Anonymous user profiling/personalization.
OMG, front-end.
<Links>
lawnchair.js (1798)
github/store.js (2562)
<my_LINKs!>
Very fresh
Hella docs
@Todo
- Data Layer separation (for GA)
- Views Integration!!!
- Stash/restore [#2279289]
- GUID? (supercookie)
- hasUserSeen(type, thing) [#2279301]
Let's Go!
Anyone stashing anything in localStorage today?
Integration ideas with Drupal?
Useful JS libraries and abstractions are available?
Basics
$.jStorage.set('myThing', 'the vale of your thing');$.jStorage.get('myThing');allTheThings = $.jStorage.index();
searchHabits = {
'lastSearch': "funny cat videos",
'resultsClicked': 8,
'sort': 'popularity'
}
$.jStorage.set('MySearchPreferences', JSON.stringify(searchHabits));
prefs = JSON.parse($.jStorage.get('MySearchPreferences'));User Storage
// All setup for you.
{
"user.origin" : {
"url" : "http://www.mysite.com/some-great-page?param=value",
"timestamp" : "398649600",
"referrer" : "http://www.anothersite.com/their-linking-page"
},
"user.session_origin" : {
"url" : "http://www.mysite.com/recent-entry-point",
"timestamp" : "398649999"
}
}
// Just grab it.origin = JSON.parse($.jStorage.get('user.origin'));alert("You've been around " + (Date.now() - origin.timestamp) + " seconds.";
Meta data
{
"nid" : "123",
"title" : "My Cool Page",
"entityType" : "node",
"bundle" : "article",
"uid" : "555",
"language" : "en",
"taxonomy" : {
"special_category" : {
"25" : "Term Name",
"26" : "Another Term"
},
"my_type" : {
"13" : "Some Tag",
}
}
}if (typeof dataLayer.taxonomy.my_category !== 'undefined') {
if (dataLayer.taxonomy.my_category.hasOwnProperty('25')) {
doMyAction(dataLayer.uid, dataLayer.language, dataLayer.title);
}
}Tracking!
// Events look like this.
{
"track.browsing.398649600" : {
"url" : "http://www.mysite.com/some-great-page",
"taxonomy" : {
"my_category" : {
"25" : "Term Name",
"26" : "Another Term"
},
"my_types" : {
"13" : "Some Tag"
}
}
}
}
// Grab them.
$.each(semiAnon.getActivities('browsing'), function (key, record) {
someComparison(record.url);
});
Anonymous Favorites!
omgFavs = semiAnon.getFavoriteTerms();{
"my_category" : {
"123" : {
"count" : 5,
"name" : "My Term"
},
"456" : {
"count" : 2,
"name" : "My Other Term"
},
},
"my_type" : {
"555" : {
"count" : 7,
"name" : "My Type"
}
}
}Using Favorites
if (favData.hasOwnProperty('my_vocab')) {
// Could use low-dash.
favVocabData = new Drupal.SemiAnon.Collection(favData['my_vocab']);
if(favData['my_vocab'][favVocabData.keys()[0]].count >= myThreshold) {
userValue = favData.property;
}
}
That looks hard; oh Views integration!
Threshold is global.
Semi Anonymous: scalable localStorage UX
By Josh Lind
Semi Anonymous: scalable localStorage UX
Using the DB for anonymous UX improvements? There is a better way. Due to scaling the browser is fine place to stash data. LocalStorage can also enhance anonymous UX through profiling and non-permanent saving.
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