Strigo SDK

An SDK that initiates and manages the in-app Strigo experience.

Getting Started

Usage

Include this snippet in the <head> section of your web application (you can copy it directly from Strigo's administrative console, in the Account page, with webApiKey and subdomain included):

<script>
  (function () {
    var s = document.createElement("script");
    s.id = "strigo-sdk";
    s.type = "text/javascript";
    s.async = true;
    s.src = "https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/strigo/strigo-sdk@master/dist/production/strigo.sdk.min.js";
    s.setAttribute("data-web-api-key", "<webApiKey>");
    s.setAttribute("data-subdomain", "<subdomain>");
    s.setAttribute("data-layout-flavor", "dynamic");
    var x = document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0];
    x.parentNode.insertBefore(s, x);
  })();
</script>

This will add the Strigo SDK to your window and call Strigo.init() to initialize the script.

API

Get the user token

In order for Strigo SDK to communicate properly with Strigo, a token must be retrieved for your end user. This token represents the user and the permissions it has against Strigo. This token can be retrieved using Strigo's API using a server-to-server means of communication.

Make sure to retrieve the token before calling Strigo.setup().

Setup

To start the Strigo experience, call setup with the following parameters:

window.Strigo.setup({
  email: "user@domain.com",
  // The token you received from Strigo's API
  token: {
    token: "",
    expiration: ""
  },
  version: "v0.2.3"
});

Send events

Strigo SDK enables you to send dedicted events to Strigo's exercises. These events could solve challenges you have created on Strigo's Lounge. Triggering these events is usually done in par with a user action that solves a challenge. The eventName is configured on Strigo's Lounge in the class template, when creating the challenge.

window.Strigo.sendEvent(eventName);

Listen to SDK changes

Strigo SDK allows you to register to events, so you can be reactive to it. For instance, if you want to make changes to your web app's UI based on the state of the Strigo Panel, you can listen to the strigo-opened event - which the SDK will trigger whenever the Strigo.setup() is called.

window.addEventListener("strigo-opened", () => {
  // Your custom code here
  // e.g : setButtonDisabled(true)
});

Shutdown

To shut down the Strigo academy, simply call:

window.Strigo.shutdown();

The sessionStorage will be erased and the page will refresh.

Destroy

To completely destroy the Strigo academy, use:

window.Strigo.destroy();

The academy panel will be closed, sessionStorage and localStorage configuration will be erased.

Development

Local

For developing with your local services and SDK:

Add 127.0.0.1 local.strigo.io to your hosts file (/etc/hosts)
Set your IS_DEVELOPMENT variable to true in the .env file.

Working with the Strigo Chrome extension locally

To allow a smoother dev experience with ability to test your changes in our Chrome extension you can direct your local dev server to also write your latest strigo.sdk.js bundle into the strigo-academy-chrome-extension scripts folder.

A new build of the extension is not required in that case since Chrome extensions invoke everything in the scripts folder dynamically.

The only thing you might need in order tou test your changes is to refresh the page.

-- in case you don't see your changes in the CE - try to update the extension in the chrome://extensions page.

To start the dev server with the extension-hot-reload, run:

npm run build start:extension

Working with the Strigo Chrome extension in prod

DISCLAIMER!

We are "temporarily" 🙄 using the dist/development/strigo.sdk.js build for production as well!

So the actual version you upload as the "prod" version of things should be the development build

but with the IS_DEVELOPMENT variable set to false!

To build a "development" build with the IS_DEVELOPMENT flag set to false you can either run the start:extension command, but set your .env file IS_DEVELOPMENT var to false.

You can run a single "prod" build that will write the sdk script into the extension scripts folder, with isDevelopment flag set to false:

npm run build:extension

Testing

Edit the .env file to include SDK_HOSTING_PORT as you like (7000 is the default port).

Then, just run:

npm start

It will bundle the script and styles, and watch for changes. The scripts will be served in:

http://localhost:SDK_HOSTING_PORT/strigo.sdk.js
http://localhost:SDK_HOSTING_PORT/styles/strigo.css

You can include the script and call it from your local app.

Build

Our built script is served directly from GitHub, so please handle it correctly

npm run build

Will bundle and minify both js and css files to dist/production directory.

Release

We use a script to automatically advance versions based on semver.

Merging to master alone does not create a new GitHub release. To actually create a release, you must provide a prefix in the last merged commit of your branch in the form of [semver:patch|minor|major]. Merging to master will then update the latest release and create a new versioned release as well.

Serve

The files in the dist/production directory can be fetched by the free CDN at JSDelivr.

Development guideline

Script Mechanism

Strigo can operate in one of the following ways:

Host - the script that invokes the setup method and initiated page manipulation
SUBSCRIBER - the script that runs "underneath" inside the Iframe, and one can only send events to its HOST, using the sessionStorage or localStorage

Init

The init method determines the status of the SDK. If the SDK is already invoked session.isPanelOpen() - the status of the SDK will be SUBSCRIBER and it won't be able to run setup.

Page manipulation

The setup method clears the original page and creates 2 iframes, side by side:

Strigo iframe - using the token and webApiKey provided.
Original webpage iframe - with the original page structure and content.

Storing data

The setup method creates two storage sessions / types:

strigoConfig - on localStorage - represents the relevant data for the script initiation and operation.

Example:

{
  "email": "hidday+strigo-user@strigo.io",
  "initSite": {
    "host": "strigo-demo.web.app",
    "pathName": "/",
    "href": "https://strigo-demo.web.app/",
    "origin": "https://strigo-demo.web.app",
    "search": "",
    "params": {}
  },
  "token": {
    "token": "RhrsHoc1bDcQagl7znXdg-7f4WKeLWa_99zZMj92zen",
    "expiration": 1644512345678
  },
  "webApiKey": "zzzzzz",
  "subDomain": "strigo.dev"
}

strigoSession - on sessionStorage - represents the data that's relevant to the current session / tab.

Example

{
  "currentUrl": "https://strigo-demo.web.app/",
  "isPanelOpen": true,
  "isLoading": false,
  "widgetFlavor": "iframe"
}

Code structure and tools

General notes

We try to keep the script as zero-dependency as possible, since it's a code that's intended to run inside your application.

Modules you can use

url - url tools to parse and build urls.
document - document manipulation tools, for appending Iframes, CSS, other elements to the document.
storage-utils - a helper module to manage both localStorage and sessionStorage.
config - the module that manages strigoConfig on localStorage.
session - the module that manages strigoSession on sessionStorage - data is relevant for every session (tab).

Contributions

Found a bug? Please file a PR!

strigo / strigo-sdk