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TL;DR
Improved PostHog session recording in Electron by switching to a more reliable recorder implementation and explicitly starting recording after initialization.
What changed?
posthog-js/dist/lazy-recorderwithposthog-js/dist/posthog-recorderto ensure recording is ready immediatelycapture_pageview,capture_pageleave, anddebug: true)posthog.startSessionRecording()after PostHog loadslogSessionRecordingStatus()call that was using setTimeoutHow to test?
Why make this change?
The previous implementation had reliability issues with session recording in Electron. Since Electron doesn't have the same page navigation events as a browser, we need to explicitly start session recording. Using the full recorder implementation instead of the lazy-loader ensures the recording functionality is available immediately after initialization.