Cannot initilizate intercom manually

[cstriuli]

Hi there 🙌,

First of all, thanks for the module! Awesome work.

About the issue

I've got a special case where I need to initialize the Intercom through an API using differents App ID's, so for example:

• domain.com/us should load the app id XXX-1
• domain.com/jp should load the app id XXX-2
• domain.com/uk should load the app id XXX-3

So I've tried to boot manually from a custom plugin in nuxt like this:

export default({$intercom, store}) => {
   const appId = store.state.country.intercomAppId
   $intercom.boot({app_id: appId})
}

But it doesn't work because the module isn't being loaded if the nuxt.config.js doesn't contain a valid app_id, so there's no way to initialize the plugin manually.

Would you mind checking the following code?

nuxt-intercom/lib/module.js

Line 16 in d17894d

if (!options.appId) {

Could I help to send a PR or let me know if I'm doing something wrong?

Thanks!

[Jamiewarb]

Ah interesting.

I believe the appId parameter can take a function, so rather than just a variable, you should be able to pass in a function that will resolve to the appId that you need.

Would that work for you?

https://github.com/hex-digital/nuxt-intercom/blob/master/lib/module.js#L11

// Async id evaluation
if (typeof (options.appId) === 'function') {
  options.appId = await options.appId()
}

[cstriuli]

Ah interesting.

I believe the appId parameter can take a function, so rather than just a variable, you should be able to pass in a function that will resolve to the appId that you need.

Would that work for you?

https://github.com/hex-digital/nuxt-intercom/blob/master/lib/module.js#L11

// Async id evaluation
if (typeof (options.appId) === 'function') {
  options.appId = await options.appId()
}

Oh, I forgot to mention it, but I have tried to use that option 🙁

The problem is that I have no way of identifying the country from the callback of the nuxt.config.js. So, to identify the country, I'm using the current route + nuxtServerInit method + a store to hold the information.

[Jamiewarb]

Ah okay fair enough. In that case, yes please feel free to suggest a better solution for it and/or submit a PR, that would be extremely useful!