Web provider

Installation

This provider requires the use of the experimental @openfeature/web-sdk:

npm install @openfeature/web-sdk

npm install @openfeature/flagd-web-provider

Usage

The FlagdWebProvider communicates with flagd via the connect protocol.

Available options

Option name	Type	Default	Description
host	string		sets the host used to connect to the flagd instance
pathPrefix	string	""	sets the path at which the flagd gRPC service is available, for example: /api/flagd (optional)
port	number	443	sets the port used to connect to the flagd instance
tls	boolean	true	when set to true the provider will attempt to connect to flagd via https
maxRetries	number	0	Sets the maximum number of retries for a connection to be made to the flagd instance. A value of 0 means unlimited. A negative value means no retries.
maxDelay	number	60000	sets the maximum time in ms to wait between reconnect intervals

Reconnection

If the connection to the flagd instance fails, the provider will attempt to reconnect with an exponential back-off. The maxDelay and maxRetries can be specified to customize reconnect behavior.

Event streaming

The FlagdWebProvider receives events from flagd with changes. Combined with the event API in the web SDK, this allows for subscription to flag value changes in clients.

client.addHandler(ProviderEvents.Ready, () => {
  // do something when the configuration has changed.
});

Caching

The FlagdWebProvider evaluates flags in bulk, taking into account the evaluation context, and then caches them in memory for local evaluation. The cache is invalidated when flag configuration change events are received.

Example

OpenFeature.setProvider(
  new FlagdWebProvider({
    host: 'myapp.com',
    port: 443,
    tls: true,
    maxRetries: 10,
    maxDelay: 30000,
  })
);