This is a submission for the DevCycle Feature Flag Challenge: Feature Flag Funhouse
What I Built
For the DevCycle Feature Flag Challenge, I built an innovative chat application that automatically adjusts its theme based on the user’s tone in the conversation. By integrating DevCycle’s feature flagging technology, the app changes its visual style (themes) according to the mood conveyed in the user’s chat input.
The app detects the tone of the user’s messages in real-time and adjusts the theme to reflect emotions such as happiness, sadness, or excitement. The beauty of this setup is that each mood’s theme is controlled by a feature flag in DevCycle. This means that if you want to change or experiment with a theme for a specific mood, you can simply update it in DevCycle’s dashboard and see the results in real time, without needing to modify the codebase or redeploy the app.
Demo
Due to time constraints, I have not deployed the application, but below are screenshots that demonstrate how the app works:
My Code
You can view the source code for the chat app on GitHub here
The repository is MIT-licensed, so feel free to explore, fork, and modify the project!
My DevCycle Experience
DevCycle made it incredibly easy to implement and manage the feature flag system for my project. Each mood (like happy, sad, or calm) has its own associated theme, and the theme for each mood is controlled by DevCycle’s feature flags. This gives me the flexibility to make real-time changes to the themes without touching the app’s code, simply by updating the feature flags in the DevCycle dashboard.
For example, if I want to tweak the happy theme or adjust the calm mood’s style, I can do so directly within DevCycle. This makes it effortless to experiment with different styles and update them on the fly. The real-time toggle capability of DevCycle is a game changer for testing and iterating on user-facing features like this one.
The feature flag management system also allows for easy testing of different moods and themes, making it possible to A/B test new designs and adjust them based on user feedback or internal preferences.
Overall, DevCycle provided the perfect platform for this project, allowing me to efficiently control the app’s mood-based theme system without needing to redeploy the app for every small change. I’m excited to continue using DevCycle for future projects to manage app features in a scalable and flexible way.
Additional Prize Categories
- Best Use of Feature Flags
Finally, all the best to everyone participating in this hackathon!
Happy Coding :)
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