Remix Product Analytics installation

Install the package

Required

Remix version

This guide is for Remix v2. For Remix v3, see our React Router v7 docs.

Install the PostHog JavaScript library using your package manager:

npm install posthog-js
yarn add posthog-js
pnpm add posthog-js

Configure Vite

Required

Add posthog-js and posthog-js/react to ssr.noExternal in your vite.config.ts so they get bundled for SSR:

vite.config.ts
// ... imports and rest of config

export default defineConfig({
  plugins: [
    remix({
      future: {
        v3_fetcherPersist: true,
        v3_relativeSplatPath: true,
        v3_throwAbortReason: true,
        v3_singleFetch: true,
        v3_lazyRouteDiscovery: true,
      },
    }),
    tsconfigPaths(),
  ],
  ssr: {
    noExternal: ["posthog-js", "posthog-js/react"],
  },
});

Create a provider

Required

Create a provider.tsx file in the app folder. Set up the PostHog provider to initialize after hydration:

app/provider.tsx
import { useEffect, useState } from "react";
import posthog from "posthog-js";
import { PostHogProvider } from "posthog-js/react";

export function PHProvider({ children }: { children: React.ReactNode }) {
  const [hydrated, setHydrated] = useState(false);

  useEffect(() => {
    posthog.init("<ph_project_token>", {
      api_host: "https://us.i.posthog.com",
      defaults: "2026-01-30"
    });

    setHydrated(true);
  }, []);

  if (!hydrated) return <>{children}</>;
  return <PostHogProvider client={posthog}>{children}</PostHogProvider>;
}

Wrap your app

Required

Import the PHProvider component in your app/root.tsx file and use it to wrap your app:

app/root.tsx
// ... imports
import { PHProvider } from "./provider";

// ... links, meta, etc.

export function Layout({ children }: { children: React.ReactNode }) {
  return (
    <html lang="en">
      <head>
        <meta charSet="utf-8" />
        <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
        <Meta />
        <Links />
      </head>
      <body>
        <PHProvider>
          {children}
          <ScrollRestoration />
          <Scripts />
        </PHProvider>
      </body>
    </html>
  );
}

export default function App() {
  return <Outlet />;
}

Send events

Click around and view a couple pages to generate some events. PostHog automatically captures pageviews, clicks, and other interactions for you.

If you'd like, you can also manually capture custom events:

JavaScript
posthog.capture('my_custom_event', { property: 'value' })

Next steps

Recommended

Now that you're capturing events, continue with the resources below to learn what else Product Analytics enables within the PostHog platform.

Resource	Description
Capturing events	Learn how to capture custom events beyond autocapture
Identifying users	Associate events with specific users
Creating insights	Build trends, funnels, and retention charts
Group analytics	Track events at the company or account level

Remix Product Analytics installation

Install the package

Configure Vite

Create a provider

Wrap your app

Send events

Next steps

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