Getting started with LaunchDarkly
The first thing you are going to need to do to get started with LaunchDarkly is to create an account. Depending on your use case, you could use a 2-week trial with a personal account or you might want to reach out to LaunchDarkly to discuss having a trial account for your company. For this chapter, a free trial personal account will be fine.
You can create an account at https://launchdarkly.com/packt.
Once you've created your account, LaunchDarkly will offer you a quick start tutorial, which you might find useful as it covers similar topics to this section but without some of the explanations and details I will provide. I will approach things from a different angle and explain some of the steps that LaunchDarkly automatically does for you when your account is created.
To start, we will set up the LaunchDarkly client within your application. LaunchDarkly provides several SDKs, and while you can implement your own system to work with LaunchDarkly...
