Sending Events from Your Front End
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When you’re building your search and browse interface, one important step is to send user events to Algolia Insights. Gathering user events is necessary to enable features like Personalization and Recommend, even if you don’t use them right away.
If you’re using one of Algolia’s UI libraries such as InstantSearch or Autocomplete, you can leverage their integrations to send user events to Algolia Insights.
Sending events with Autocomplete
If you’re using the Autocomplete UI library in your front end, you can automatically send events to Algolia Insights and other analytics providers whenever a user interacts with the autocomplete menu.
To do so, you can use the autocomplete-plugin-algolia-insights plugin and the search-insights library.
Sending events with InstantSearch
If you’re using InstantSearch in your front end, you can send events from refinement and results widgets.
Sending events from a custom front end
If you’re building your own custom front end without leveraging any of Algolia’s UI libraries, you can use the JavaScript API client and the search-insights library to send events.
