Guides

Welcome to the LaunchDarkly guides!

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

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

Want a more interactive experience? Try the guided tutorials and virtual labs available at LaunchDarkly Academy.

Here are our guide categories:

Feature flags

These guides help you excel in the use of LaunchDarkly's fundamental product feature: the feature flag.

Recommended guides

• Getting started with release pipelines
• Best practices for upgrading users to contexts

Experimentation

Learn how to use LaunchDarkly's Experimentation feature to make data-driven decisions about anything, from infrastructure to end users.

Integrations

Learn how to connect LaunchDarkly to the software you use every day.

Infrastructure

These guides teach you how to incorporate LaunchDarkly at every level of your organization, from customer-facing websites to unit tests.

Recommended guides

• Using LaunchDarkly in serverless environments
• Using LaunchDarkly with Next.js

SDKs

These guides help developers learn how to work with the LaunchDarkly SDKs, which evaluate feature flags in your application's code.

Recommended guides

• Use cases for SDK wrappers

Teams and custom roles

LaunchDarkly's teams and custom roles features let you manage groups of account members with precise permissions at scale.

Recommended guides

• Creating custom roles

REST API

The LaunchDarkly REST API lets you perform any action you can do in the LaunchDarkly platform's UI. To learn more, read the API documentation.

Additional resources

Access blog posts, videos, and answers to frequently asked questions to help you learn best practices and strategies for using feature flags on our Additional resources page.