Standardizing Feature Flags Is Easy to Agree On. Migrating Safely Is the Hard Part. (opens in new tab)

Why I built FlagLint, an open-source CLI for moving direct LaunchDarkly Node.js usage behind an OpenFeature boundary Feature flags usually begin as a simple engineering decision. A team needs to release gradually. A developer adds a flag. The application evaluates it through the provider SDK. The rollout succeeds. Then the pattern repeats. One feature becomes ten. One service becomes dozens. Over time, application code starts to accumulate direct calls to a provider-specific API: const enable...