Guides

Welcome to the LaunchDarkly user guides!

This category of our documentation contains best practices guides and tutorials to help you succeed with LaunchDarkly, whether you're a new user or a power user.

Read on and follow the exercises in the guides below to learn more about what you can do with feature flags and LaunchDarkly features.

Best practices

• Building teams in LaunchDarkly
• Creating flags
• Deployment and release strategies
• Feature flag hierarchy
• Improving flag usage in code
• Integrations use cases
• Minimizing LaunchDarkly's access to user data
• Reducing technical debt from feature flags
• Using entitlements to manage user experience
• Using Experimentation
• Using feature flags to mitigate risk in infrastructure migrations
• Using LaunchDarkly in serverless environments
• Using LaunchDarkly integrations

Tutorials

• Configuring an SDK and creating a flag
• Experimenting with feature flags
• Flag rules and targeting

Platform-specific guides

• Managing custom roles with SSO and SCIM
• Managing flags with Terraform
• Using flags on static sites with JavaScript
• Using flags with AWS Lambda
• Using flags with Next.js
• Using mobile SDKs
• Using the Lua SDK with HAProxy
• Using the Lua SDK with NGINX

The LaunchDarkly blog

The LaunchDarkly blog shows you how to use features flags effectively, and gives use cases for how other people have succeeded using feature flags. The blog category links some of the most useful content for feature flag users.

To learn more, read the blog category.