Update Emitter utility method

[vanand17]

Proposed changes

Adding a common usecase for the analytics.on() method

Merge timing

ASAP

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[silesky]

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[vanand17]

Hey @silesky I agree, I did provide the ready() method as well, but the customer wanted to fetch the Ids right after AJS initialisation, and did not want to wait for/be impacted by destinations being initialised.
So the on() method seems to make more sense that way.
Let me know your thoughts..

[silesky]

Hey @silesky I agree, I did provide the ready() method as well, but the customer wanted to fetch the Ids right after AJS initialisation, and did not want to wait for/be impacted by destinations being initialised. So the on() method seems to make more sense that way. Let me know your thoughts..

@vanand17 Customer is mistaken, there is no practical difference in timing between ready and initialized, they are virtually the same -- both wait for destinations to be loaded. For all intents and purposes, they are interchangeable.

edit: Sorry @vanand17, I am eating my words! We do have special logic that flushes initialize before we register plugins =)

[vanand17]

Hi Seth, thanks for the clarification, here is a thread on this topic with cradek, where he proposed this as a solution: https://twilio.slack.com/archives/CATJY9BDW/p1700193167765019

Just a bit confused on the usage of on() hence sharing this with you to review.

Apologies for the delay in getting back to you.

[silesky]

@vanand17
Small things:

1. quotes look off? (turn off smart quotes on ios)
2. this.getAnonymousId() is not a function -- we want to do analytics.user().anonymousId()
3. I am weary of introducing multiple similar sounding ways of doing the same thing without explaining the difference clearly -- would want to clarify the difference between on('initialize') and .ready() here and which we would prefer.
4. @chrisradek will .ready() behavior change due to the lazy loading? I assume not, but I would forget what we decided.

[vanand17]

Hi @silesky Thank you for providing your feedback. Happy to get this updated based on your points and bring it back for review.