keen.js version is out of date

[ndhoule]

From @d4rky-pl on April 14, 2015 12:37

Analytics.js uses prehistoric version of keen.js that was released almost a year ago. The latest version as of writing this is 3.2.4 whereas analytics still use 3.0.8 that doesn't support new visualisation apis amongst other things.

Copied from original issue: segmentio/analytics.js-integrations#592

[ndhoule]

From @sperand-io on April 17, 2015 17:32

Thanks @d4rky-pl — will get this updated in short order. cheers!

[ndhoule]

From @d4rky-pl on April 19, 2015 7:39

@sperand-io it might be a good idea to allow people to choose the library version in admin panel, otherwise switch between 3.0.8 to 3.2.4 may be painful for some people (some APIs have changed and I'm not sure if they're backwards compatible)

[ndhoule]

From @dustinlarimer on April 23, 2015 22:52

@d4rky-pl @sperand-io tracking functionality hasn't changed between those versions, though we've replaced a lot of internal request handling methods to tighten things up. We also added a Keen.noConflict() method to help avoid version collisions where possible. I would be happy to sync up on this and help! dustin@keen.io

[dustinlarimer]

@ndhoule manually defining the lib version could be a nice option. It would be even better to obscure the lib entirely from the global namespace so version collisions won't be possible. Seems a bit unnecessary for users to ever have to think about versioning.

@sperand-io and I were talking about disabling the readKey option (to avoid exposing read-keys), which would limit the integration to only use the keen-tracker.js distro. All of this combined would resolve a lot of issues. If a user wants to load querying/dataviz functionality, they should be able to also install the full version of our lib from our CDN without issue or collisions.

Any thoughts on that? Anything I can do to make all of this easier? I'm always happy to jump in and help!

[ladanazita]

@sperand-io Any updates on this? looks like Keen is on v3.4.0: https://github.com/keen/keen-js

[harsaharsa]

Would be great to have this fixed. It's causing errors on our website, e.g. www.appgyver.com/features/ and Keen.io's hands are tied (they said that they've been pinging you about this several times themselves without things moving forward).

[timrwilliams]

+1 we're trying to use the Keen.DataViz component but its not available in 3.0.8.

The workaround we're using is loading the Keen version directly in our Dashboard page and then using the noConflict option:

<script src="//cdn.jsdelivr.net/keen.js/3.4.0-rc/keen.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script>
var CleanKeen = Keen.noConflict(true);
var client = new CleanKeen({
  projectId: "XYZ",
  readKey: "123456"
});
CleanKeen.ready(function(){
...standard Keen queries and DataViz using the CleanKeen object.
//e.g. var chart = new CleanKeen.Dataviz();
});