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1. sponsor_click has never fired

useSponsorTracking.ts pushed an array literal onto window.dataLayer:

window.dataLayer?.push(['event', 'sponsor_click', { location, target }])

gtag.js only dispatches queue entries that are genuine arguments objects, which is what nuxt-gtag's own helper pushes (dist/runtime/utils.js: window.dataLayer?.push(arguments)). The array is enqueued and then ignored. No event, no error.

Evidence: the GA4 property has recorded exactly six event names in 400 days — page_view, session_start, first_visit, user_engagement, scroll, click. sponsor_click is not among them. Enhanced measurement did record an outbound click to the sponsors URL over the same period, so the CTA was clicked and the custom event missed it.

The existing test passed throughout because it asserted the queue's contents rather than delivery.

Fixed by dispatching through nuxt-gtag's useGtag(), captured during setup so trackClick stays safe to call from a click handler outside Nuxt context.

2. Giscus comments go blank on article-to-article navigation

AppGiscusComments.vue injected the client script in onMounted only, while keying the container div on path. On a client-side navigation between articles the component instance survives, so onMounted does not re-run, but :key="path" destroys the div holding the giscus iframe and replaces it with an empty one. The result is a permanently blank comments block until a full page load.

Fixed by extracting the injection and re-running it on path change with flush: 'post'.

Tests

  • useSponsorTracking.spec.ts now asserts trackClick never writes to dataLayer directly. Verified as a real guard: reverting the fix fails it with expected [ …(2) ] to have a length of +0 but got 2.
  • The same broken contract was encoded in oss-profiles.spec.ts and paragraphs.spec.ts; both corrected.
  • AppGiscusComments.spec.ts gains a re-injection test (RED before the fix: expected null not to be null) and pins data-repo-id, data-category-id, data-category and data-mapping. Those four silently break the embed if wrong, since giscus renders an empty state rather than an error.

640 tests passing, coverage thresholds met, eslint and nuxt typecheck clean.

Verification caveat

gtag.enabled is process.env.CONTEXT === 'production', so nuxt-gtag swaps in no-op mock composables everywhere else. Delivery cannot be asserted from a local or preview build, and the tests say so rather than pretending otherwise. Confirm sponsor_click in GA4 Realtime after deploy.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Improvements

    • Comments now load correctly when navigating between articles without a full page refresh.
    • Sponsor link interactions are tracked through the site’s analytics system for more reliable reporting.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for comment configuration, comment loading after navigation, and sponsor interaction tracking.

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The PR makes Giscus reinject after client-side article navigation. It also changes sponsor event dispatch from direct window.dataLayer writes to nuxt-gtag's gtag() helper and updates related tests.

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Giscus navigation

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Giscus script reinjection
nuxt/app/components/AppGiscusComments.vue, nuxt/tests/components/AppGiscusComments.spec.ts
The component stores its props, extracts script injection, and reruns injection after path changes. Tests verify the configured Giscus attributes and article navigation behavior.

Sponsor tracking

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nuxt-gtag sponsor event dispatch
nuxt/app/composables/useSponsorTracking.ts, nuxt/tests/composables/useSponsorTracking.spec.ts, nuxt/tests/components/oss-profiles.spec.ts, nuxt/tests/components/paragraphs.spec.ts
useSponsorTracking sends sponsor_click through gtag(). Tests verify inactive GA4 handling and confirm that direct window.dataLayer writes do not occur.

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The changes restore sponsor-click analytics delivery and Giscus comments during article navigation without changing external integrations or component interfaces. The PR is mergeable with owner awareness, but sponsor-click tests should also assert the gtag event and payload so a future no-op regression cannot pass unnoticed.

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pr-167: https://pr-167--stuartclark.netlify.app

Updated 2026-08-27T23:12:49Z

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All pages within budget — 13 pages scanned.

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In `@nuxt/tests/composables/useSponsorTracking.spec.ts`:
- Around line 38-54: Extend the sponsor-click tests to positively verify gtag
dispatch rather than relying only on empty dataLayer checks. In
nuxt/tests/composables/useSponsorTracking.spec.ts lines 38-54, spy on
useGtag().gtag and assert the exact payloads for default and custom open-source
targets; in nuxt/tests/components/oss-profiles.spec.ts lines 48-58, assert
open-source and github-sponsors payloads; in
nuxt/tests/components/paragraphs.spec.ts lines 250-253, assert article-repo-card
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Comment on lines +38 to +54
// The bug this guards against: pushing an array literal straight onto
// window.dataLayer. gtag.js only dispatches queue entries that are genuine
// `arguments` objects, so such a push is enqueued and then ignored forever —
// no event in GA4, no error anywhere, and a unit test that asserts the
// queue's *contents* still passes. sponsor_click sent nothing for the 400
// days that code was live.
//
// Delivery itself cannot be asserted here: nuxt-gtag swaps in its no-op
// `useGtagMock` whenever `gtag.enabled` is false, which is every environment
// except production. So the guard is that the queue stays untouched — true
// only when dispatch goes through nuxt-gtag.
it('trackClick never writes to dataLayer directly', async () => {
const { useSponsorTracking } = await import('~/composables/useSponsorTracking')
const { trackClick } = useSponsorTracking('open-source')
trackClick()
expect(window.dataLayer).toHaveLength(1)
expect(window.dataLayer[0]).toEqual(['event', 'sponsor_click', {
location: 'open-source',
target: 'github-sponsors',
}])
trackClick('other-target')
expect(window.dataLayer).toHaveLength(0)

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Add positive gtag assertions to the sponsor-click tests.

All three tests pass if trackClick becomes a no-op. Keep the empty-queue checks, but also spy on useGtag().gtag and verify the exact event payload.

  • nuxt/tests/composables/useSponsorTracking.spec.ts#L38-L54: verify default and custom targets for the open-source location.
  • nuxt/tests/components/oss-profiles.spec.ts#L48-L58: verify open-source and github-sponsors.
  • nuxt/tests/components/paragraphs.spec.ts#L250-L253: verify article-repo-card and github-sponsors.
📍 Affects 3 files
  • nuxt/tests/composables/useSponsorTracking.spec.ts#L38-L54 (this comment)
  • nuxt/tests/components/oss-profiles.spec.ts#L48-L58
  • nuxt/tests/components/paragraphs.spec.ts#L250-L253
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In `@nuxt/tests/composables/useSponsorTracking.spec.ts` around lines 38 - 54,
Extend the sponsor-click tests to positively verify gtag dispatch rather than
relying only on empty dataLayer checks. In
nuxt/tests/composables/useSponsorTracking.spec.ts lines 38-54, spy on
useGtag().gtag and assert the exact payloads for default and custom open-source
targets; in nuxt/tests/components/oss-profiles.spec.ts lines 48-58, assert
open-source and github-sponsors payloads; in
nuxt/tests/components/paragraphs.spec.ts lines 250-253, assert article-repo-card
and github-sponsors payloads. Keep all existing empty-queue assertions.

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Fixed in 6ce6854.

You were right that all three tests passed if trackClick became a no-op. The direct fix you suggested — spying on useGtag().gtag — is not reachable here, and it is worth recording why:

  • gtag.enabled is process.env.CONTEXT === 'production', so nuxt-gtag auto-imports its no-op useGtagMock under the name useGtag in every other environment.
  • mockNuxtImport('useGtag', …) silently does not intercept; mockNuxtImport('useGtagMock', …) errors with Cannot find import "useGtagMock" to mock.
  • vi.mock on the bare specifier fails on the package's exports map, and vi.mock('#imports', …) does not intercept either, because unimport injects the auto-import by absolute path.

So the payload is now built by a pure dispatcher, app/utils/sponsorEvents.ts, which takes gtag as a parameter and is asserted positively — exact payloads for open-source and article-repo-card, the default and custom targets, and the GA4-inactive no-op. This matches the util-plus-thin-wrapper split the repo already uses for interpolation and internalTraffic.

The empty-queue assertions are kept, as you asked.

Remaining gap, stated plainly: nothing proves trackClick hands the right gtag to the dispatcher. That is a one-line type-checked delegation, and it is the same seam the repo already leaves untested for its other plugin/util splits.

645 tests passing, coverage thresholds met, eslint and typecheck clean.

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