Microsoft Feature Management for JavaScript

Feature management provides a way to develop and expose application functionality based on features. Many applications have special requirements when a new feature is developed such as when the feature should be enabled and under what conditions. This library provides a way to define these relationships, and also integrates into common JavaScript code patterns to make exposing these features possible.

Getting Started

Azure App Configuration Quickstart: A quickstart guide about how to integrate feature flags from Azure App Configuration into your JavaScript applications.

Feature Overview: This document provides a feature status overview.

Feature Reference: This document provides a full feature rundown.

Usage

You can use feature flags from the Azure App Configuration service, local files or any other sources. For more information, please go to Feature flag configuration.

Use feature flags from Azure App Configuration

The App Configuration JavaScript provider provides feature flags in as a Map object. A builtin ConfigurationMapFeatureFlagProvider helps to load feature flags in this case.

import { load } from "@azure/app-configuration-provider";
import { FeatureManager, ConfigurationMapFeatureFlagProvider } from "@microsoft/feature-management";
const appConfig = await load("<CONNECTION-STRING>", {featureFlagOptions}); // load feature flags from Azure App Configuration service
const featureProvider = new ConfigurationMapFeatureFlagProvider(appConfig);
const featureManager = new FeatureManager(featureProvider);
const isAlphaEnabled = await featureManager.isEnabled("Alpha");
console.log("Feature Alpha is:", isAlphaEnabled);

Use feature flags from a json file

A sample JSON file with the following format can be used to load feature flags. The JSON file can be read and parsed as an object as a whole. A builtin ConfigurationObjectFeatureFlagProvider helps to load feature flags in this case.

Content of sample.json:

{
    "feature_management": {
        "feature_flags": [
            {
                "id": "Alpha",
                "description": "",
                "enabled": true,
                "conditions": {
                    "client_filters": []
                }
            }
        ]
    }
}

Load feature flags from sample.json file.

import { FeatureManager, ConfigurationObjectFeatureFlagProvider } from "@microsoft/feature-management";
const config = JSON.parse(await fs.readFile("path/to/sample.json"));
const featureProvider = new ConfigurationObjectFeatureFlagProvider(config);
const featureManager = new FeatureManager(featureProvider);
const isAlphaEnabled = await featureManager.isEnabled("Alpha");
console.log("Feature Alpha is:", isAlphaEnabled);

Examples

See code snippets under examples/ folder.

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