2 posts tagged with "providers"

We are excited to announce the release of the OpenFeature “Multi-Provider” for JavaScript and NodeJS. This new provider allows developers to access multiple OpenFeature providers through a unified interface, with customizable strategies that reconcile inconsistencies between providers. The Multi-Provider supports use cases including provider migrations and long-term support for multiple feature flag sources. It is currently available for the Javascript OpenFeature SDKs @openfeature/server-sdk and @openfeature/web-sdk.

A Provider is responsible for performing flag evaluation, they can be as simple as an interface for a key value store, or act as an abstraction layer for a more complex evaluation system. Only one Provider can be registered at a time, and OpenFeature will no-op if one has not been defined. Before writing your own Provider, it is strongly recommended to familiarize yourself with the OpenFeature spec.
In this tutorial I will demonstrate the steps taken to create a new Provider whilst conforming to the OpenFeature spec using a simple flag implementation. The flag evaluation will be handled by a simple JSON evaluator and flag configurations will be stored as environment variables.

The following section describes how the flag evaluator portion of this project has been constructed, to skip to the Provider specific implementations, click here.