Summary

Being able to target features at the right customers is crucial to the success of feature management and in this chapter, we covered working with users in greater detail than we have thus far. We began by looking at how important it is to understand how to use the User object in the code base to ensure that all the useful data can be used within LaunchDarkly's targeting functionality. Some of this data might be sensitive and LaunchDarkly caters for this data to be used for targeting, but it should not appear within the tool itself for people to view.

Then, we looked at the information that can be seen within LaunchDarkly about the user. This is useful when we want to ensure that all the correct data is coming through for users. More useful, though, is the ability to see each of the flags and which variant is being served to each user. We also looked at how it is possible to set the specific outcome of a flag for individual users.

The final part of this chapter focused...