@spotify-confidence/sdk

Confidence SDK

JavaScript implementation of the Confidence SDK, enables event tracking and feature flagging capabilities in conjunction wth the OpenFeature Web SDK.

Usage

Adding the dependencies

To add the packages to your dependencies run:

yarn add @spotify-confidence/sdk

Initializing the SDK

Run the Confidence.create function to obtain a root instance of Confidence.

import { Confidence } from '@spotify-confidence/sdk';

const confidence = Confidence.create({
  clientSecret: 'mysecret',
  region: 'eu',
  environment: 'client',
  timeout: 1000,
});

Region

The region option is used to set the region for the network request to the Confidence backend. When the region is not set, the default (global) region will be used. The current regions are: eu and us, the region can be set as follows:

const provider = createConfidenceWebProvider({
  region: 'eu', // or 'us'
  // ... other options
});

Timeout

The timeout option is used to set the timeout for the feature flag resolve network request to the Confidence backend. When the timeout is reached, default values will be returned.

Setting the context

You can set the context manually by using setContext({}):

confidence.setContext({ 'pants-color': 'yellow' });

or obtain a "child instance" of Confidence with a modified context by using withContext({})

const childInstance = confidence.withContext({ 'pants-color': 'blue', 'pants-fit': 'slim' });

At this point, the context of childInstance is 'pants-color': 'blue', 'pants-fit': 'slim' while the context of confidence remains {'pants-color': 'yellow'}.

[!IMPORTANT] When using the SDK in a server environment, you should call withContext rather than setContext. This will give you a new instance scoped to the request and prevent context from leaking between requests.

Event tracking

Use confidence.track() from any Confidence instance to track an event in Confidence. Any context data set on the instance will be appended to the tracking event.

confidence.track('event_name', { 'message-detail1': 'something interesting' });

Auto track

Confidence supports automatically tracking certain things out of the box and supports API's for you to extend that functionality.

Visitor ID (web)

Confidence can provide all flag resolves and tracking events with a browser specific identifier. We call this visitor_id.
The visitor_id is stored in a cookie. To add a generated visitor_id to the context, use the following:

import { visitorIdentity } from './trackers';
confidence.track(visitorIdentity());

Page Views (web)

Confidence can automatically track page views on events such as load, pushState, replaceState, popstate and hashchange. To automatically track page views, use the following:

import { Confidence, pageViews } from '@spotify-confidence/sdk';
confidence.track(pageViews());

Web vitals (web)

To automatically send tracking events containing web vitals data, use:

import { Confidence, webVitals } from '@spotify-confidence/sdk';
confidence.track(webVitals());