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Record And Replay

Record and Replay is the most common use case, which is suitable for any scenario that needs to collect user behaviors and replay them.

You only need a simple API call to record the website:

import { record } from '@rrweb/record';

const stopFn = record({
  emit(event) {
    // save the event
  },
});

You can use any approach to store the recorded events, like sending the events to your backend and save them into the database.

But you should guarantee:

  • a set of events are sorted by its timestamp
  • save every event

You can use the stopFn to stop the recording.

Replay is also as simple as passing events into Replayer.

import { Replayer } from '@rrweb/replay';

const events = GET_YOUR_EVENTS;

const replayer = new Replayer(events);
replayer.play();