Analytics | send heartbeat on start

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PR Review: Analytics | send heartbeat on start

Review Checklist

• Read the analytics.ts file to understand the change
• Review for code quality and best practices
• Check for potential bugs or issues
• Assess performance considerations
• Evaluate security concerns
• Consider test coverage

Summary

This PR adds a single line to the startHeartBeatProcessor function that sends an initial heartbeat event immediately when the processor starts, before setting up the interval-based heartbeats.

Review Feedback

✅ Code Quality and Best Practices

• The change is minimal and follows the existing code patterns
• Reuses the same event tracking mechanism consistently
• Maintains the existing function structure and error handling

✅ Potential Bugs or Issues

• No obvious bugs identified
• The change is additive and doesn't modify existing behavior
• The heartbeat deduplication logic (isHeartBeatProcessing flag) properly prevents multiple processors from running

✅ Performance Considerations

• Minimal performance impact - adds one additional analytics event at startup
• The existing queue management and batching mechanisms will handle this event efficiently
• No blocking operations or expensive computations added

✅ Security Concerns

• No security issues identified
• Uses the existing analytics tracking infrastructure
• No new data collection or external API calls introduced

⚠️ Test Coverage

• Missing tests: This change lacks test coverage
• Consider adding unit tests to verify:
  • Initial heartbeat is sent immediately on processor start
  • Only one initial heartbeat is sent even if startHeartBeatProcessor is called multiple times
  • The initial heartbeat has the correct event name (USER_HEARTBEAT_EVENT_NAME)

Suggestions

1. Add PR Description: Consider adding a description explaining why this change is needed. Does it help with user session tracking? Analytics accuracy?

2. Consider Documentation: If this changes the analytics behavior in a meaningful way, update any relevant documentation about heartbeat events

3. Test Coverage: Add unit tests for this functionality. Example test case:

   it('should send initial heartbeat immediately when processor starts', () => {
     const trackMock = jest.fn();
     const cleanup = startHeartBeatProcessor(trackMock);
     
     expect(trackMock).toHaveBeenCalledWith({ 
       eventName: USER_HEARTBEAT_EVENT_NAME 
     });
     expect(trackMock).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
     
     cleanup();
   });

Conclusion

The change is straightforward and appears safe to merge. It ensures that analytics systems receive at least one heartbeat event even for very short user sessions, which is a reasonable improvement. However, adding test coverage would increase confidence in the change.

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