@particle-academy/fancy-features

Headless, zero-dependency feature-management engine — boolean flags + metered-resource gating, feature groups (with extends, overrides, and callable gates), and quota usage tracking. The Node/TypeScript mirror of the PHP particle-academy/laravel-fms — same resolution semantics, no Laravel/Eloquent. It also owns the shared feature contract consumed by @particle-academy/fancy-catalog.

import { createFeatures } from "@particle-academy/fancy-features";

const features = createFeatures({
  features: {
    "use-mcp": { type: "boolean", enabled: true },
    "ai-tokens": { type: "resource", limit: 10_000 },
  },
  groups: [
    { key: "pro-plan", features: ["use-mcp", "ai-tokens"], overrides: { "ai-tokens": { limit: 50_000 } } },
  ],
});

await features.canAccess("use-mcp", user); // true
await features.remaining("ai-tokens", user); // 10000 − usage

// Group assignment lifts the cap (MAX wins):
features.groupStore.assign(user, "pro-plan");
await features.remaining("ai-tokens", user); // 50000 − usage

Resolution order

pre-strategies → gate → registry → groups (OR) → config → sources → default deny

• pre-strategies — registerPreStrategy(name, (feature, subject, context) => boolean | null); first non-null wins (authoritative). registerPreRemainingStrategy is the number | null analog for remaining().
• gate — an injected gate(feature, subject, context) => boolean | null; a boolean is authoritative (can deny even when later sources would allow).
• registry / config — programmatic + config-map feature definitions; enabled/check evaluated.
• groups — the subject's assigned groups (GroupStore) plus callable-gated groups, OR'd; group overrides raise resource limits (MAX wins).
• sources — FeatureSource[] resolve FeatureGrant[]; a grant with enabled:true turns the feature on. This is where fancy-catalog plugs in.
• resource remaining — MAX(group/source limit, feature.limit) − UsageStore.getUsage, clamped ≥0; null ⇒ unlimited.

API

createFeatures(opts) / new FeatureManager(opts):

• canAccess(key, subject?, context?) → Promise<boolean> — entitlement (isEntitled / isEnabled / hasFeature are aliases)
• canConsume(key, subject?, amount?, context?, period?) → Promise<boolean> — entitled and it fits
• remaining(key, subject?, context?) → Promise<number | null> (null = unlimited)
• enabled(subject?, context?) → Promise<string[]> (all enabled keys)
• explain(key, subject?, context?) → Promise<AccessResult> ({ allowed, source, remaining?, limit?, used? })
• registerPreStrategy / registerPreRemainingStrategy
• registerSource(FeatureSource) · registerFeature(key, def) · registerGroup(group)
• Quota helpers: increment · decrement · tryConsume (atomic) · usageFor · overageFor · resetPeriod
• onOverage(listener) → unsubscribe

Entitlement is not quota

canAccess answers entitlement: is this feature granted, regardless of how much of the allowance is left. A metered feature whose quota is exhausted is still entitled — the customer is still paying for it — so hiding it at the moment they are spending most would be the opposite of useful.

canConsume is a read. Between it and the write that follows, another request can take the last unit; tryConsume is the one that cannot be raced.

Changed in 0.5.0. A FeatureSource grant used to be "on" only while quota remained, while the same feature defined in the registry was on regardless. If you used canAccess as a consumption gate, move to canConsume or tryConsume — see the CHANGELOG entry.

Billable overage

FeatureGrant.overageLimit (and Feature.overageLimit) is a ceiling on consumption past the included quantity. null or 0 means no overage, which is what every configuration written before 0.5.0 says.

Overage is permitted only when it can be recorded — a UsageStore implementing addOverage / getOverage (the bundled InMemoryUsageStore does), or an onOverage listener that takes responsibility for it. With neither, the ceiling stays at the included quantity, exactly as before. It fails closed on purpose: unbilled usage is the one failure that cannot be repaired afterwards.

features.onOverage(({ feature, subject, units, totalUnits, period }) => {
  // units      — billable units from THIS consumption
  // totalUnits — running total for the period
});

Recording is in scope; invoicing is not. Reporting metered usage to Stripe needs a subscription item id a headless gating engine does not have and must not guess.

Registry — FeatureRegistry: array | factory fn | class-with-definition().

Groups — FeatureGroupRegistry (resolvedFeatures, resolvedOverrides, groupsContaining, 1-level extends with cycle detection) + GroupStore (in-memory InMemoryGroupStore default).

Usage — UsageStore (in-memory InMemoryUsageStore default).

Guard — requireFeature(manager, keys, subject?) (OR logic, throws FeatureAccessDeniedError) + canAccessAny predicate + requireFeatureMiddleware (generic (req,res,next), no express dependency).

Helpers — feature(), canAccessFeature(), hasFeature(), featureRemaining(), enabledFeatures() bound to a default instance via setDefaultFeatures / configureFeatures.

The shared contract

Exported verbatim from the barrel and mirrored structurally by fancy-catalog's ./features subpath: FeatureType, Subject, BillingPeriod, FeatureGrant, FeatureSource, UsageStore, AccessResult, Feature, FeatureGroup. A FeatureSource built in catalog is assignable here with no build-time dependency between the two packages.

import { createCatalogFeatureSource } from "@particle-academy/fancy-catalog/features";

const features = createFeatures({
  sources: [createCatalogFeatureSource(catalog, { resolveSubscription })],
});
await features.canAccess("use-mcp", user); // resolves via the user's subscription's product features

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