LaunchDarkly Cloudflare SDK

The LaunchDarkly Cloudflare SDK is designed primarily for use in multi-user Cloudflare workers. It follows the server-side LaunchDarkly model for multi-user contexts. It is not intended for use in desktop and embedded systems applications.

This SDK is a replacement of launchdarkly-cloudflare-edge-sdk. Please consider updating your application to use this package instead.

For more information, see the complete reference guide for this SDK.

Install

# npm
npm i @launchdarkly/cloudflare-server-sdk

# yarn
yarn add @launchdarkly/cloudflare-server-sdk

# jsr
npx jsr add @launchdarkly/cloudflare-server-sdk

Then turn on the Node.js compatibility flag in your wrangler.toml. This allows the SDK to use node:events:

compatibility_flags = [ "nodejs_compat" ]

Additional JSR setup

If you want to install this package as a JSR package, you will need to use esbuild version >= 19.7 to enable support for import attributes.

Quickstart

Initialize the ldClient with your client side sdk key and the Cloudflare KV namespace:

import { init as initLD } from '@launchdarkly/cloudflare-server-sdk';

export default {
  async fetch(request: Request, env: Bindings): Promise<Response> {
    const clientSideID = 'test-client-side-id';
    const flagKey = 'testFlag1';
    const context = { kind: 'user', key: 'test-user-key-1' };

    // init the ldClient, wait and finally evaluate
    const client = initLD(clientSideID, env.LD_KV);
    await client.waitForInitialization();
    const flagValue = await client.variation(flagKey, context, false);

    return new Response(`${flagKey}: ${flagValue}`);
  },
};

See the full example app.

Developing this SDK

# at js-core repo root
yarn && yarn build && cd packages/sdk/cloudflare

# run tests
yarn test

Verifying SDK build provenance with the SLSA framework

LaunchDarkly uses the SLSA framework (Supply-chain Levels for Software Artifacts) to help developers make their supply chain more secure by ensuring the authenticity and build integrity of our published SDK packages. To learn more, see the provenance guide.

About LaunchDarkly

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  • Grant access to certain features based on user attributes, like payment plan (eg: users on the ‘gold’ plan get access to more features than users in the ‘silver’ plan).
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