ember-config-cat

ember-config-cat

This addon includes a service which wraps a ConfigCat client and aims at easing any feature flagging in your applications.

Compatibility

• Ember.js v3.24 or above
• Ember CLI v3.24 or above
• Node.js v12 or above

Installation

ember install ember-config-cat

Usage

Options

# environment.js

module.exports = function (environment) {
  let ENV = {
    emberConfigCat: {
      // your options goes here
    }
  };
};

Option	Default	Description	Links
mode	'auto'	Polling mode: 'auto'/'lazy'/'manual'
local	false	Enabling local mode: will only use default flag values	-
flags	-	Default values for feature-flags	-
sdkKey	–	Your SDK Key
requestTimeoutMs	30000	Amount of time the SDK waits before returning cached values
maxInitWaitTimeSeconds	5	Maximum waiting time between client init and config fetch
pollIntervalSeconds	60	Polling interval
cacheTimeToLiveSeconds	60	Cache TTL
dataGovernance	0 (Global)	Determine the CDN location of the data: 0 for Global / 1 for EuOnly
logLevel	-	Set a custom log level

• requestTimeoutMs and dataGovernance are common polling options to the three available modes
• All default values except mode, local and autoStart are defined in the ConfigCat SDK
• You may define either local or sdkKey but the addon will fallback to local mode if no sdkKey is provided.

Content Security Policy (CSP)

If your app is using ember-cli-content-security-policy, you may need to add this into environment.js to allow ConfigCat requests.

module.exports = function (environment) {
  let ENV = {
    contentSecurityPolicy: {
      'connect-src': ['https://cdn-global.configcat.com'],
    },
  };
};

Initializing the client

Without user identification

import Route from '@ember/routing/route';
import { inject as service } from '@ember/service';

export default class WhateverRoute extends Route {
  @service configCat;

  beforeModel() {
    return this.configCat.initClient();
  }
}

With user identification

A ConfigCat user object is made of four properties (identifier, email, country and custom): structure Calling .identifyUser() will initialize the client if needed.

import Route from '@ember/routing/route';
import { inject as service } from '@ember/service';

export default class WhateverRoute extends Route {
  @service configCat;

  async model() {
    const user = this.authenticate();
    await this.configCat.identifyUser({
      identifier: user.id,
      email: user.email,
    });
  }
}

Using feature-flag values

import Component from '@glimmer/component';
import { inject as service } from '@ember/service';

export default class WhateverComponent extends Component {
  @service configCat;

  get isEnabled() {
    return this.configCat.flags.isAwesomeFeatureEnabled;
  }
}

{{#if this.isEnabled}}
  Enabled
{{else}}
  Disabled
{{/if}}

Template helpers

Name	Parameters	Description
is-flag-enabled	key	Checks if the flag is enabled
get-flag-value	key	Gets the current flag value
has-flag-value	key, value	Compares the current flag value against a provided parameters

Clearing data

import Component from '@glimmer/component';
import { inject as service } from '@ember/service';
import { action } from '@ember/object';

export default class WhateverComponent extends Component {
  @service configCat;

  @action onClear() {
    this.configCat.dispose();
  }
}

Public methods and properties

Name	Type	Description
flags	tracked property	Returns available feature-flags and values
identifyUser	method	Identifies user and update feature-flags values
update	method	Updates feature-flags values
dispose	method	Releases everything related to the ConfigCat client

Testing

ember-config-cat comes with a couple of test-helpers:

// ...
import { setupConfigCat, TestContext } from 'ember-config-cat/test-support';

module('...', function (hooks) {
  // ...
  setupConfigCat(hooks);

  test('...', async function (this: TestContext, assert) {
    // configuring one flag
    this.withFlag('featureA', true);

    // configuring several flags
    this.withFlags({ featureB: true, pricing: 10 });

    // ...
  });
});

Contributing

See the Contributing guide for details.

References

We draw our inspiration from the ember-launch-darkly addon

Docs

• ConfigCat API
• Using ConfigCat in JavaScript Documentation - SDK
• Browser compatibility

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.