We need Segment to recognize our app as a data source, using the analytics.js SDK. OK, we have an app that can receive feedback! Now we want to track when a user starts typing, and when they hit the Submit button. We need to publish our app to give it a URL:Ĭhoose a URL for your app and Anvil deploys it

The tutorial will take you 10 minutes, but if you’re feeling impatient you can get a complete copy of the app by clicking this link.īut seriously, consider checking out the 10-minute tutorial – it’s pretty simple to get started:īuilding web apps with Anvil is really easy. We’re going to start with a simple feedback form, built from this tutorial. Then we’re going to show you how to use Anvil’s built-in user authentication to identify users to Segment. We’re going to take a simple feedback-form app, and use Segment to track the user’s journey as they fill it out. Today, I’m going to show you how to use them together: we’re going to wire up an Anvil app to collect user interactions with Segment. Segment makes it easy to collect customer interaction data from your apps and websites, and send it to all your analytics tools, data warehouses, CRMs, and literally anything else.Īnvil makes it easy to build web apps, by letting you do it all in Python (no HTML or JS required!). It was first published on the Anvil blog. This is a guest post from Meredydd Luff, Founder of Anvil, the Python-based drag-and-drop app builder.

Flask app builder examples