Dynamic social buttons (with Google Analytics social tracking)

You can use this code to initialize social buttons (Facebook, Google+, Twitter) dynamically & track social actions in Google Analytics. This library works with both versions of Google Analytics (old analytics code & the new universal analytics code).

The code is written in Coffeescript, but you can easily transform it to JavaScript using the online compiler from the Coffeescript website.

You'll need to include social-buttons.coffee in your code & customize a few options before it's ready to be used:

• get a Facebook App ID & customize the facebookAppId value. The Facebook App ID is required to be able to monitor like, unlike and share social actions trough the Facebook API and records these actions in Google Analytics.

• add a Facebook channel HTML file. To learn more about this file, see this StackOverflow question.

• customize the twitter tweet text (that appears when users click the Tweet button). By default, the app will use the current page's title (window.title), but you might want to change this in certain cases.

This Coffeescript code uses the jQuery library so you'll need to include a recent version of this lib in your page to be able to use the social buttons code.

Also, in your HTML files, you'll need to include an empty div element with the class name dynamic-social-buttons where you want the social buttons to be inserted (e.g. <div class="dynamic-social-buttons"></div>).