Discussion on "How to log user activities using the Beacon Web API?"

Tapas Adhikary · 2020-10-26T06:55:13.460Z

The Beacon API is a relatively unknown, lightweight, and efficient way to log web page activities to a server. It is a JavaScript API that helps the developer to send a small amount of data such as, analytics or tracking information, debugging, or di...

Love this Tapas Adhikary, would try this out!

Sure thing. Thanks Bolaji.

Very insightful article. I love it Tapas Adhikary.

Thank you Edidiong Asikpo, I'm glad.

I forgot about this, thanks for sharing 🙏

It’s also worth noting that Beacon API isn’þ restricted by CORS policies as much as regular XHRs requests.

The specs: w3.org/TR/beacon

And some interesting story about CORS, Beacon, Chrome (and Firefox) : medium.com/@longtermsec/chrome-just-hardened-the-…

Sébastien Portebois, Thanks!

Great point about CORS and thanks for the links. Must go through.

Really informative post.

Thank you very much!

Great article, will try this soon!

Exactly what I needed this week. Thanks 🙏 Bookmarked.

Nice I remember Beacons being quite big from the apple days, not sure if this API can also be used for those?

Good point Chris Bongers, certainly something to check out. Thanks for reading and commenting!

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