satellite.track complications in server side rendered react component?

We just launched a new site using a server side rendered react framework. In trying to send some _satellite.track objects (according what I have read to be best practices for a SPA), "_satellite" is undefined.

The developers then tried to use window._satelitte but from there they had an error where if a string wasnt passed to the tracker it threw another error so then it became stringified as a JSON object.

Does anyone know of issues with sending "_satellite.track" in React? Or are there other methods I am missing? 

Thanks!

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