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Welcome to the JoyStation wiki!
Use the analytics software you're already used to. JoyStation takes advantage of Google Analytics Events. Instead of tracking traffic, how about tracking how people feel?
The iPad 2 had a retail lifespan from 2011–2014. JoyStation aims to make those devices useful again by turning them into kiosks. By building a web app, we can continue to iterate the software without the need for publishing a native app for hardware that's no longer supported by the manufacturer.
JoyStation is a single-page web app. That means that you're always looking at the newest version. Get your hands on an iPad 2 that may be collecting dust, and open the web address. http://rcpl.github.io/JoyStation/ If you're interested in hosting JoyStation yourself, we recommend using a stable release https://github.com/RCPL/JoyStation/releases and contributing.
The user interface is incredibly simple, but the technology under the hood is from the future. Vue.js makes the modification of the user interface straight-forward to anyone who knows HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, but without the hassles.
Richland Library doesn't collect any usage data about you, your users, your customers, or anything. Configuration data
JoyStation is the first of many open source projects started by Richland Library.
- Make a Google Analytics Account, make a new project, and get your tracking key
- Get your hands on an old iPad 2, and open the web address http://rcpl.github.io/JoyStation/
- Add the web page to your home screen & re-open it