React (Vite / CRA)

A client-side React app built with Vite or Create React App has a single HTML entry file. Paste the snippet into its <head> and it loads on every route.

Get your tracking snippet

In your Rybbit dashboard, open Site Settings → Tracking Script and copy your snippet. It looks like this:

<script src="https://app.rybbit.io/api/script.js?siteId=YOUR_SITE_ID" defer></script>

YOUR_SITE_ID is the numeric ID of your site. If you self-host Rybbit, app.rybbit.io is the domain of your own instance.

Add the snippet to React

Find the HTML entry file for your tooling:

Vite: index.html at the project root.
Create React App: public/index.html.

Paste the snippet just before </head>:

index.html

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <title>My React App</title>
    <script src="https://app.rybbit.io/api/script.js?siteId=YOUR_SITE_ID" defer></script>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div id="root"></div>
  </body>
</html>

Placing it before </body> also works; <head> lets it start loading sooner. Route changes made by React Router and similar libraries are tracked automatically as pageviews.

Verify installation

Open your live site in a new tab and click through a few pages. Within a few seconds the pageviews appear in the Rybbit dashboard.

If nothing shows up:

View the page source and search for script.js?siteId= to confirm the snippet is on the page.
Open the browser Network tab and check that script.js returns 200 and that POST requests go to /api/track.
Disable ad blockers, or set up a proxy so the script loads from your own domain.
See the script troubleshooting guide for other common causes.

Track custom events

Call window.rybbit.event() from any component. Guard the call so a blocked or still-loading script does not throw.

src/components/LearnMoreButton.jsx

export default function LearnMoreButton() {
  const handleClick = () => {
    if (window.rybbit) {
      window.rybbit.event("button_click", { category: "CTA", label: "Learn More" });
    }
  };

  return <button onClick={handleClick}>Learn More</button>;
}

Troubleshooting

Pageviews missing after navigation: this is rare with React Router. If it happens, call window.rybbit.pageview() after each route change; test the default behaviour first.

Next steps

Track custom events such as signups, purchases and button clicks.
Identify users to connect sessions to accounts.
Proxy the script through your own domain to bypass ad blockers.
Script attributes let you skip or mask URLs and tag events.