File Data Source Feature Request

[taschetto]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
In a team with many developers, it can be a hassle to share client-side ids and multiple environments on LaunchDarkly. We want developers to load and manage flags from a file - as we do on server-side SDKs.

Describe the solution you'd like
In a local development environment, we want to turn the client offline so we can use a bootstrapped flag set. Ideally, this would behave just like reading flags from a file on server-side SDKs.

Describe alternatives you've considered

• create a msw plugin so we can mock LD requests at the request level during development (which is the ideal solution since the application code would be the same as the production build)
• provide a custom client implementation mocking the functions

[louis-launchdarkly]

Hello @taschetto, Thank you for the feature request. I will discuss with the React engineer about this feature and let you know our thoughts about this.

Filed Internally as 222973.

[boxgames1]

@louis-launchdarkly any news on this?

[avinayak]

Hacky way to do this if someone needs it..

import LDContext from "launchdarkly-react-client-sdk/lib/context";
import flags from "ld_offline_flags.json";

const withLDProvider = (Component: React.ComponentType) => (
      props: React.ComponentProps<typeof Component>,
    ) => (
      <LDContext.Provider
        value={{
          flags,
          flagKeyMap: {},
          ldClient: {
            allFlags: () => flags,
            identify: () => new Promise(() => {}),
            on: () => new Promise(() => {}),
            waitUntilGoalsReady: () => new Promise(() => {}),
            track: () => new Promise(() => {}),
            variation: () => new Promise(() => {}),
            waitUntilReady: () => new Promise(() => {}),
            waitForInitialization: () => new Promise(() => {}),
            flush: () => new Promise(() => {}),
            getUser: () => ({}),
            variationDetail: () => ({
              value: false,
              variation: 0,
              reason: {
                kind: `ERROR`,
                errorKind: `FLAG_NOT_FOUND`,
              },
            }),
            setStreaming: () => new Promise(() => {}),
            off: () => new Promise(() => {}),
            alias: () => new Promise(() => {}),
            close: () => new Promise(() => {}),
          },
        }}
      >
        <Component {...props} />
      </LDContext.Provider>
    );

[taschetto]

I went with https://github.com/tdeekens/flopflip.