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Join us for the DevCycle Feature Flag Challenge: $1,000 in Prizes!

dev.to staff on November 27, 2024

We are so excited to team up with DevCycle to bring the community a challenge all about having fun with feature flags! Running through December 8...
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Ben Halpern The DEV Team โ€ข

The last challenge was one of the most popular yet, excited to see what folks do with this one.

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Schemetastic (Rodrigo) โ€ข โ€ข Edited

What a cool idea! So, basically, it is like having variables in the cloud that you can manage and then in your code you can add the logic to test features, depending on the value that has on the cloud. ๐Ÿคฏ

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Shafayet Hossain Yashfi โ€ข

If it weren't for all this study and work pressure, I swear Iโ€™d jump into this challenge right away. I really, really want to join, but I just can't right now๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ

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Ogbotemi Ogungbamila โ€ข

I already found a fix. I had to experiment with common standards of authorizing API requests to find a way around the grave omission of API request parameters for making and viewing changes in the DevCycle API documentation - docs.devcycle.com/management-api

I will be sending a link to a gist containing a working code sample as well as mentioning this omission in my submission soonest

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Charlie Say โ€ข

lets go!

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Ogbotemi Ogungbamila โ€ข

Hello, I'd like to request for a sample API request code containing the body and headers required by DevCycle's API.
Their docs doesn't contain any hint at all for the API request parameters except for when obtaining an auth token at the start of the page.

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Pull Review with Scott Beeker โ€ข

Awesome!! ๐Ÿ˜Ž

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Grunet โ€ข โ€ข Edited

Not sure there's enough time to iron it out, but I thought of making a digital shishi-odori as a metaphor for automatic load shedding controlled by feature flags.

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Jaisurya โ€ข

All the best for all the participants ๐Ÿ‘

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Jess Lee The DEV Team โ€ข

Good luck everyone!

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Sanath Krishna RamaKrishna โ€ข

Hi, I have a question, Api allstar category says - "making full use of the DevCycle API". What does it mean, does it mean i should use all Api's without missing anyone or just effectively use the ones that are essential for my app?** DEV's** can you help me here? Thanks in advance.

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Jess Lee The DEV Team โ€ข

Hey @coding_claws, our intention was just creative use of the API broadly. It's not necessary to attempt to use more endpoints than what is needed for your use case.

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Nikunj Bhatt โ€ข

First of all I want to know what is "feature flag".

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Lem Dulfo โ€ข

Think of it as a way to enable or disable features in the frontend (including mobile apps) by changing a configuration in the backend. This way, users can experience your app in many different "flavors" without you creating a new app release.

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Nikunj Bhatt โ€ข

Are the Feature Flags similar to the features flags shown on the "about:config" pages of a web browsers?

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Antonio Fuller โ€ข

Hmm

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Lahcene Ouled Moussa โ€ข

Great job

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Ghost โ€ข

Iโ€™m not understanding the challenge ๐Ÿ˜ญ what are supposed to do ๐Ÿคฒ๐Ÿฝ

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Power_Coder โ€ข

Is someone interested in teaming up?

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TechCrafted โ€ข

let's go

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Anusorn Thumwari โ€ข

Like

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Code Wanderer โ€ข

๐Ÿ˜Ž Awesome!! ๐Ÿ˜Ž