Hey All We are using the Javascript SDK on the client side t

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Hey All We are using the Javascript SDK on the client side to run experiments with growthbook which has been working great for us raised hands Now we have a requirement to run server side experiments with traffic splitting and variation assignment done by our internal systems and not growthbook I wished to ask if we can force the variants in growthbook experiment in some way if possible

rhythmic-agent-34208 · Answer

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brief-honey-45610 · Answer

Hi Ustatleen thanks for your message I ll check on this and reply again soon

powerful-shampoo-80729 · Answer

Thanks

rhythmic-agent-34208 · Answer

Hi Ustatleen I talked this over with one of our engineers and while you can do this we re a little confused about why you would want to Could you tell me more about your use case Are you wanting to sun server side experiments and client side experiments at the same time If the user bucketing is working well on the client side why do you want to do your own bucketing yourself If you use GrowthBook to bucket users on the client side but your own method to bucket users on the server side the buckets won t match and it will be hard to compare the analyses If you are going to do the bucketing yourself you likely don t need the GrowthBook SDK since you d only be using the GrowthBook dashboard for analyzing the experiments I hope this info is helpful If you can answer my questions I might be able to provide more info

powerful-shampoo-80729 · Answer

So the use case is that we are wanting to run server side experiments and show different UI based on the cookie set by our cloudfront config which shall correspond to different variants of the experiment Based on that we want to track data for which we were thinking of using Growthbook and map our variation assignment to the split done by growthbook as it was being done by Google Optimise

powerful-shampoo-80729 · Answer

But thanks for clarifying that if we do our own bucketing then we don t need GB In this case we just import the experiment on the dashboard and do the analysis right

rhythmic-agent-34208 · Answer

Hi Ustatleen thanks for providing this info You are correct if you are going to do your own bucketing you do not need to use the GrowthBook SDK You would import the experiment and use GrowthBook to run your analyses

rhythmic-agent-34208 · Answer

Do you have any other questions about this process

powerful-shampoo-80729 · Answer

Nope that s all and that is helpful Thanks smile raised hands