Polish season: Week #2

We’re into week 2 of polishing our UI, SDKs, and backend to keep Bucket a high-quality product while shipping tons of improvements. 

Here’s what we polished this week:

App improvements

• Drastically improved internal data processing service start up times (reduced by 98.4%!) by initializing from stored aggregated values
• Simplified the app and environment picker in the sidebar
• Polished the overall design of the feature sidebar
• Redesigned the main content area as a card
• Added a guide for feature entitlements

SDKs

Node SDK

• ‍Updated and expanded the SDK documentation
• Introduced offline mode to improve the behavior of the SDK in tests and on localhost
• Added options to set local feature overrides for localhost development
• Improved logging
• Made improvements to the installation and getting started process
• Introduced file and environment variable-based configuration
• Fixed a rate limiter issue where it would keep accumulating data

Bug fixes

• Updated autocomplete selectors so they all work the same
• Reduced loading flicker in autocomplete selectors when a user is typing
• Changed how rules were stored to stop some flag rules from being misrepresented as OR instead of AND.

Happy shipping!