threepointone

(I'm enjoying doing these raw, barely edited writeups; I hope they're useful to you too)

Feature flags

This is my own writeup on feature flags; for a deep dive I'd recommend something like Martin Fowler's article (https://martinfowler.com/articles/feature-toggles.html).

So. Feature flags. The basic idea that you'll store configuration/values on a database/service somewhere, and by changing those values, you can change the user experience/features for a user on the fly.

Let's say that you're building a new feature, called 'new-button' which changes the color of buttons, which is currently red, to blue. Then you'd change code that looks like this -

developit

dialog {
	position: fixed;
	top: 50%;
	left: 50%;
	right: auto;
	padding: 30px;
	transform: perspective(500px) translate(-50%, -50%);
	background: linear-gradient(to bottom, #FFF, #F4F4F4) #FFF;
	border: none;
	border-radius: 3px;

brianarn

// A simple object with some methods,
// which throw errors when bad arguments are passed.
var maths = {
  square : function (value) {
    // Validity checking
    if (arguments.length !== 1) {
      throw new Error('square: Requires one and only one argument');
    }
    if (typeof value !== 'number') {
      throw new Error('square: Requires numeric argument');