Tutorial: Installing Ackee on macOS

In this tutorial, we will go through the steps on how to install Ackee, a self-hosted analytics tool, on macOS.

Requirements

  • macOS system
  • Homebrew package manager
  • Node.js runtime environment (v14+)
  • Git version control system

Installation

  1. Open the Terminal app on your macOS system.

  2. Install Homebrew package manager by running the following command in your terminal:

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
  1. Once Homebrew is installed, run the following command to install Node.js:
brew install node
  1. Verify that Node.js is installed by running the following command:
node -v

This should output the version number of Node.js installed on your system.

  1. Install Git version control system by running the following command:
brew install git

  1. Navigate to the directory where you would like to install Ackee.

  2. Clone the Ackee repository from GitHub by running the following command:

git clone https://github.com/electerious/Ackee.git
  1. Navigate into the cloned Ackee directory by running the following command:
cd Ackee
  1. Install Ackee dependencies by running the following command:
npm install
  1. Rename the example.env file to .env by running the following command:
mv example.env .env

  1. Open the .env file in a text editor and update the configuration settings to match your environment. For example, you will need to set up a MongoDB database and update the ACKEE_MONGODB setting to point to the database URL.

  2. Start Ackee by running the following command:

npm start

This will start the Ackee server on http://localhost:3000 by default.

  1. Open your web browser and navigate to http://localhost:3000 to access the Ackee dashboard.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed and set up Ackee on your macOS system. You can now use this self-hosted analytics tool to track website traffic and user behavior.