Django Waffle vs. Angular Feature Flags

I would recommend that engineers look to try Django Waffle for feature development within a team setting; it really streamlines flipping features on and off for testing. I think the simplicity of Django Waffle is pretty great, but it may be a limitation for those developing far more complex products.

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Feature Flags are well suited for apps which are being developed across numerous teams in order to extend and basically enable/disable whatever areas of the app you want. It's not really necessary for an individual developer or perhaps even a single team of developers, depending.

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• User-friendly syntax
• Easy installation
• Lightweight and supported, so not much in the way of bugs

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• Allows for easy configuration of what you may define as features
• Allows for a customization layer to utilize Feature Flags

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• Not as complex as Gutter, albeit suitable for most product needs that I've encountered

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• Would be nice if there were a built in route guard and more end to end solution out of the box I suppose

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I found Django Waffle to work seamlessly with my Django-native codebase, and the implementation was extremely fast and intuitive. Gargoyle offers a bit more in the way of building more complicated code segments, but it's also more complex to implement. I use Django Waffle for nearly every project involving feature flipping.

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We still utilize Git as our source control system but Feature Flags allow us to use Git in a less complex and more efficient way for our development needs.

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• Easy to show clients different feature options without rewriting the whole codebase
• Faster feedback loops during testing
• Good for synchronizing team effort across the codebase

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• I would say a large ROI considering the reduction in branching and merging we need to perform and also the ability to use common, up to date code across teams. There's a lot of shared code we make use of, particularly with identity and authentication and our entire identity platform which is essentially used by each feature.

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