Frontend docker image should build with static file to serve flags

[matthewelwell]

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Currently the frontend defaults to using the staging API for it's Flagsmith on Flagsmith configuration. We should build the image with a snapshot of the features at the time of building and then allow people to configure Flagsmith on Flagsmith as needed.

[kyle-ssg]

@matthewelwell Question here, would we want that flag state to be in git? I guess that would be quite useful in a way (To see diffs). Either way this is really simple thanks to https://github.com/Flagsmith/flagsmith-cli

[matthewelwell]

@matthewelwell Question here, would we want that flag state to be in git? I guess that would be quite useful in a way (To see diffs). Either way this is really simple thanks to https://github.com/Flagsmith/flagsmith-cli

Yeah, I think it should live in git.

[kyle-ssg]

Would we want the SDK to use this file as default flags? I thought it'd be useful but then realised that everyone would identify anyway, making it a bit pointless.

[matthewelwell]

I don't fully know how it works tbh, but what I'd like to happen is that all users logging in to the Flagsmith dashboard in a self hosted installation that hasn't configured Flagsmith on Flagsmith sees the features that we configure in this static file. Is that possible?

[kyle-ssg]

The only way that's possible is if we prevent those users from identifying, since that would result in new flags being fetched. I'm not sure that's desirable in all cases?