feature_flag 0.1.1

Provides feature flags that can be enabled and disabled by a variety of methods..

Feature Flag

A dart package that provides feature flags that can be enabled and disabled by a variety of methods.

Rationale

Some recommended reading:

• Use cases for feature flags by featureflags.io
• Feature Toggles (aka Feature Flags) by Martin Fowler

Basic Example

This is a basic example of a binary (enabled/disabled) flag with a default value only.

features.dart

import 'package:feature_flag/feature_flag.dart';

final Feature<BinaryFeatureState> puppyParty = Feature<BinaryFeatureState>(
  name: 'puppyParty',
  defaultState: BinaryFeatureState.enabled,
);

main.dart

import './features.dart' as features;

void main() {
  if (features.puppyParty.enabled) {
    print('Yay! A puppy party!');
  } else {
    print('nothing to see here...');
  }
}

Result

$ dart main.dart
Yay! A puppy party!

Going Further

Features can be supercharged through the use of decision sources, which allow the decisions regarding the state of a feature to be influenced by a variety of sources. For example, you could have a feature disabled by default, except it's enabled when a specific environment variable is set, or when a web API returns a certain response, or after a certain date has passed, or any combination of these in priority order.

Extending the above example to load feature state from an environment variable could look like:

features.dart

import 'package:feature_flag/feature_flag.dart';

// Create the decision source
final EnvironmentVariableDecisionSource envVarDecisionSource = EnvironmentVariableDecisionSource();

// Register the features
final Feature<BinaryFeatureState> puppyParty = Feature<BinaryFeatureState>(
  name: 'puppyParty',
  defaultState: BinaryFeatureState.disabled,
  decisionSources: <DecisionFunction<BinaryFeatureState>>[
    envVarDecisionSource.checkVariable('ENABLE_PUPPIES'),
  ],
);

// Use the features in code
void main() {
  if (puppyParty.enabled) {
    print('Yay! A puppy party!');
  } else {
    print('nothing to see here...');
  }
}

Result

$ dart main.dart
nothing to see here...

$ ENABLE_PUPPIES=false main.dart
nothing to see here...

$ ENABLE_PUPPIES=true main.dart
Yay! A puppy party!

If multiple decision sources are provided for a certain feature, then the first one in the list to return a value (and not fall through) is used as the feature's state.