Frequently Asked Questions

Date of slack thread: 4/16/24

Anonymous: Hi, my team will be utilizing the TypeScript statsig client on the backend (we are doing server side rendering for this project). Can we initialize our client using the server api key, or are we required to use client api key? My understanding is that the server api key is less restrictive, so I think that that would be preferable. I ask because we previously had issues using the server api key for a javascript project, and the documentation seems to suggest we must use the client api key.

Tore (Statsig): Im not sure what you mean by “TypeScript statsig client.” We offer a statsig-node, and statsig-js sdk. The statsig-node sdk requires a server secret to generate values to do server side rendering for your statsig-js or statsig-react front end sdk. Does that help?

Anonymous: Sorry. I was referring to the statsig-js sdk–we are using that. I assume we can initialize that with the server secret? We had issues in the past doing that. Just want to verify that we should expect that to work.

Tore (Statsig): No, you wont be able to use that with the server secret key. You’ll need statsig-node for that. If you are trying to do SSR, you need both a server and a client SDK. The server SDK generates the values for the client.

Anonymous: Hmm…I don’t believe we are using node for our backend. We are using next-js, which works with TypeScript. My understanding is we will have to use statsig-js-sdk there, no?

Tore (Statsig): next-js uses node on the server side, so you should be good to go. We use next-js for our web console, with our node SDK and react SDK.