Crown

Give access to your new features gradually. Make them available to a percentage of your users, certain group or specific users. Get feedback, make users happy by providing exclusive access and don't break everything at once!

Inspired by Ruby's rollout gem.

Features

• Configurable backend
• Roll out features to percentage of users, groups or specific users
• Enable/disable features
• Promise-based API

Installation

$ npm install crown --save

Usage

const Crown = require('crown');

let rollout = new Crown();


// enable `chat` for everyone
yield rollout.enable('chat');

var hasChat = yield rollout.isEnabled('chat'); // true


// enable `chat` for 20% of users
yield rollout.enablePercentage('chat', 20);

var hasChat = yield rollout.isEnabled('chat', { id: 1 }); // true

Check if user has access to a feature

To validate access of a certain user to a feature, use isEnabled() method. It accepts 2 arguments: name of the feature and user object. user can be Number, String or Object with id property.

let user = { id: 1 };

let hasChat = yield rollout.isEnabled('chat', user);

If your user objects store id in a different property than id, you can customize it via idAttribute:

rollout.idAttribute = '_id';

Enable feature for everyone

enable() method gives access to all users, regardless of any other rules.

yield rollout.enable('chat');

To disable feature for everyone:

yield rollout.disable('chat');

Enable feature for a percentage of users

You can enable certain feature for only a percentage of all users:

yield rollout.enablePercentage('chat', 25);

The algorithm for determining which users are given access is this:

CRC32(user_id + feature_name) % 100 < percentage

Enable feature for a group of users

You can register a group of users, that satisfy some custom criteria:

rollout.group('beta-testers', function (user) {
  return user.role === 'beta-tester';
});

and give access only to this group:

yield rollout.enableGroup('chat', 'beta-testers');

let betaUser = { role: 'beta-tester' };
let guestUser = {};

yield rollout.isEnabled('chat', betaUser); // true
yield rollout.isEnabled('chat', guestUser); // false

To disable a feature for previously enabled group:

yield rollout.disableGroup('chat', 'beta-testers');

Enable feature for a specific user

You can also restrict access to specific users:

let goodUser = { id: 1 };
let badUser = { id: 2 };

yield rollout.enableUser('chat', goodUser);

yield rollout.isEnabled('chat', goodUser); // true
yield rollout.isEnabled('chat', badUser); // false

To disable a feature for previously enabled user:

yield rollout.disableUser('chat', goodUser);

Backend stores

Crown can use whatever backend you want, as soon as there is an adapter for it. Take a look how easy it is to write one, check out built-in MemoryStore.

There are 2 backend stores available: MemoryStore (built-in) and RedisStore.

To use redis store, install it via $ npm install crown-redis-store and:

const RedisStore = require('crown-redis-store');
const Crown = require('crown');

// for accepted arguments see https://www.npmjs.com/package/redis#redis-createclient
let redisStore = new RedisStore(6379, '127.0.0.1');

let rollout = new Crown({
  store: redisStore
});

Tests

$ npm test

License

MIT © Vadym Demedes