From f487189a191ccea142881c9d73169a7c697cdff2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tim Leikauf <tim.leikauf@googlemail.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2026 21:04:57 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?Fix=20PostHog=20init=20race=20condition=20?=
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posthog.capture() queues events automatically before init completes,
so checking __loaded blocked the first pageview from being sent.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 components/PostHogProvider.tsx | 13 ++++++++-----
 lib/posthog.ts                 | 11 -----------
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/components/PostHogProvider.tsx b/components/PostHogProvider.tsx
index e632bcc..ba3c8c5 100644
--- a/components/PostHogProvider.tsx
+++ b/components/PostHogProvider.tsx
@@ -2,19 +2,22 @@
 
 import { useEffect } from 'react'
 import { usePathname } from 'next/navigation'
-import { initPostHog, posthog } from '@/lib/posthog'
+import posthog from 'posthog-js'
 
 export default function PostHogProvider({ children }: { children: React.ReactNode }) {
   useEffect(() => {
-    initPostHog()
+    posthog.init('phc_BHgg9S7CQqVShe7EMCdi86PxA49qcNaTsR9Nn5EGxRCT', {
+      api_host: 'https://analytics.hyggecraftery.com',
+      capture_pageview: false,
+      persistence: 'localStorage',
+    })
   }, [])
 
   const pathname = usePathname()
 
   useEffect(() => {
-    if (posthog.__loaded) {
-      posthog.capture('$pageview', { $current_url: window.location.href })
-    }
+    // PostHog queues events automatically before init completes
+    posthog.capture('$pageview', { $current_url: window.location.href })
   }, [pathname])
 
   return <>{children}</>
diff --git a/lib/posthog.ts b/lib/posthog.ts
index 658b195..794536a 100644
--- a/lib/posthog.ts
+++ b/lib/posthog.ts
@@ -1,13 +1,2 @@
 import posthog from 'posthog-js'
-
-export function initPostHog() {
-  if (typeof window !== 'undefined' && !posthog.__loaded) {
-    posthog.init('phc_BHgg9S7CQqVShe7EMCdi86PxA49qcNaTsR9Nn5EGxRCT', {
-      api_host: 'https://analytics.hyggecraftery.com',
-      capture_pageview: false,
-      persistence: 'localStorage',
-    })
-  }
-}
-
 export { posthog }