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Feature Flags
Features inside the woocommerce repository can be in various states of completeness. To provide a way for improved control over how these features are released in these different environments, woocommerce has a system for feature flags.
We currently support the following environments:
| Environment | Description |
|---|---|
| development | Development - All features should be enabled in development. These flags are also used in both JS and PHP tests. Ran using pnpm start. |
| core | Core - assets/files ready and stable enough. Ran using pnpm build & pnpm pack. |
Adding a new flag
Flags can be added to the files located in the config/ directory. Make sure to add a flag for each environment and explicitly set the flag to false.
Please add new feature flags alphabetically so they are easy to find.
Basic Use - Client
The window.wcAdminFeatures constant is a global variable containing the feature flags.
Instances of window.wcAdminFeatures are replaced during the webpack build process by using webpack's define plugin. Using webpack for this allows us to eliminate dead code when making minified/production builds (plugin, or core environments).
To check if a feature is enabled, you can simplify check the boolean value of a feature:
{ window.wcAdminFeatures[ 'activity-panels' ] && <ActivityPanel /> }
We also expose CSS classes on the body tag, so that you can target specific feature states when they are enabled:
<body class="wp-admin woocommerce-page woocommerce-feature-enabled-activity-panels ....">
Basic Use - Server
Feature flags are also available via PHP. To ensure these are consistent with the built client assets, includes/feature-config.php is generated by the plugin build process or pnpm start. Do not edit includes/feature-config.php directly.
To check if a feature is enabled, you can use the Automattic\WooCommerce\Admin\Features\Features::is_enabled():
if ( \Automattic\WooCommerce\Admin\Features\Features::is_enabled( 'activity-panels' ) ) {
add_action( 'admin_header', 'wc_admin_activity_panel' );
}
If you name a directory after the flag in includes/ with a class-wc-admin-FEATURE.php file, this code will also automatically be loaded.