Home / Companies / GrowthBook / Blog / Post Details
Content Deep Dive

Fully Typesafe SDK

Blog post from GrowthBook

Post Details
Company
Date Published
Author
Graham McNicoll
Word Count
453
Company Posts That Month
9
Language
English
Hacker News Points
-
Post removed?
No
Summary

GrowthBook has enhanced its client-side SDKs, originally written in 100% Typescript, by addressing previous limitations in type safety. While Typescript provided a solid foundation for type inference, it couldn't catch issues like typos in feature names or incorrect fallback value types. The latest update now allows for compile-time type checks, ensuring that errors such as a mismatched feature flag value type are caught early by defining all feature names and types when creating a GrowthBook instance. Additionally, GrowthBook introduced a command-line tool to automatically generate and maintain these feature types, simplifying the process and reducing human error. This tool can be integrated into development workflows to keep feature types up-to-date and is part of broader plans to expand type safety, including supporting strongly typed targeting attributes and integrating these capabilities across all SDK languages.

Trends Found in this Post

No tracked trend matches for this post yet.

Use This Data

Use this post, company, and trend context to find content marketing opportunities, perform competitive analysis, or address product feature gaps via the Plushcap MCP server or the Plushcap API.