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Using Environments for Conditional Evaluation outside of Production

All of our SDKs allow you to set the environment tier your app is currently in during initialization. If you'd like to evaluate feature gates, dynamic configs, and/or experiments to different values in development/staging environment vs. production, you simply need to set the correct environment in your code when initializing and configure the corresponding features in Statsig console to evaluate differently for an environment tier. The sections below goes into details on how to do these.

SDK Usage​

When initializing the SDK, set the environment via the StatsigOptions parameter. All SDKs accept an SDK key and an (optional) StatsigOptions dictionary of parameters. One of those options is the environment parameter, which has a tier field. The tier can be one of: "production"/"development"/"staging". If the environment tier is unset, all checks and event logs are considered "production" data.

For this example, lets say we are setting the parameter for our development environment/app.

Client SDKs take an SDK Key, User, and StatsigOptions parameter:

await statsig.initialize(<SDK_KEY>, user, {environment: {tier: 'development'}})

Server SDKs take just an SDK Key and StatsigOptions parameter:

await statsig.initialize(<SDK_KEY>, {environment: {tier: 'development'}})

These examples in js and node illustrate the general pattern - refer to your language's specific SDK documentation for more information.

Console Usage​

Head on over to the console and create a new feature gate. For this example, I'll call mine "development mode." It will only pass for our development apps.

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Then, toggle on the Environment Rules from the overflow menu in the top right:

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And select the "development" option:

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Your gate should now have a separate section for "development" rules:

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Under "Development Rules" hit "Add a Rule." Lets make this pass for everyone on the development tier:

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After clicking Save Changes you can test it out in the test gate console at the bottom. You should see the gate Pass when the environment tier is set to "Development"

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You have successfully created a gate which will pass for all users who are using one of your "development" builds.

Happy building!