Track user signup events in JavaScript

Learn how to track user signup events in your JavaScript application using Operational for better analytics and user onboarding insights.

What is user signup tracking in JavaScript

Tracking user signup events helps you understand new user growth. It shows when and how users join your service. By capturing signup data, you can measure marketing success and improve onboarding flow. For example, you can see which sources drive the most registrations.

Using Operational for event tracking

Operational lets you capture and view signup events in real time. You can send events from your JavaScript code and see them on the dashboard.

Operational in action

Setting up Operational

  1. Go to app.operational.co and sign up.
  2. Create a new project in your dashboard.
  3. Copy your API key from project settings.
  4. Install the SDK with npm:
    npm install @operationalco/sdk

Tracking signup events in JavaScript

import Operational from "@operationalco/sdk";

const ops = new Operational("API_KEY");

const payload = {
  name: "user signup",
  avatar: "🆕",
  content: "User Jane Doe signed up"
};

await ops.events.ingest(payload);

This code initializes the Operational client, creates a payload for a signup event, and sends it to your project. You can see the event in your Operational dashboard.

Conclusion

With Operational, you can save time by quickly tracking signup events without building your own system. It gives you real-time insights into user onboarding.

Learn more at https://operational.co. Try the playground to copy and paste snippets: https://operational.co/playground