phoenix-client-development

Development

Development guide for the @arizeai/phoenix-client TypeScript SDK — run and resume experiments, manage OpenTelemetry tracer providers with stack-based attach/detach, and write vitest unit and integration tests. Use when adding features to phoenix-client, debugging experiment lifecycle or provider cleanup, modifying dataset/prompt/session/span APIs, or writing tests for the js/packages/phoenix-client/ directory.

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Phoenix Client Development

TypeScript SDK for Phoenix AI observability: datasets, experiments, prompts, sessions, spans, traces.

Read existing code in the directory you're working in before writing new code.

Rule Files

Rule file	When to read
`rules/experiments.md`	Experiment execution, task runners, evaluator wiring
`rules/tracing.md`	OpenTelemetry tracer providers, span export, global state
`rules/testing.md`	Unit tests, integration tests, test fixtures

Build and Test

cd js/
pnpm --filter phoenix-client test

Tests use vitest. Test files live in test/ named *.test.ts.