From fc5b4c9aab047daa99053e5c34a8190244a379d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel <djelcic@spotify.com>
Date: Tue, 6 May 2025 12:53:06 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Export root route for home page

Signed-off-by: Daniel <djelcic@spotify.com>
---
 plugins/home/src/alpha.tsx | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/plugins/home/src/alpha.tsx b/plugins/home/src/alpha.tsx
index 74f96a2195..04d612ef1c 100644
--- a/plugins/home/src/alpha.tsx
+++ b/plugins/home/src/alpha.tsx
@@ -69,4 +69,7 @@ const homePage = PageBlueprint.makeWithOverrides({
 export default createFrontendPlugin({
   pluginId: 'home',
   extensions: [homePage],
+  routes: {
+    root: rootRouteRef,
+  },
 });

From 195323fdde4505565e95a54930c145aecf9aae35 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel <djelcic@spotify.com>
Date: Tue, 6 May 2025 13:01:47 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] Add changeset

Signed-off-by: Daniel <djelcic@spotify.com>
---
 .changeset/puny-rice-sneeze.md | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 .changeset/puny-rice-sneeze.md

diff --git a/.changeset/puny-rice-sneeze.md b/.changeset/puny-rice-sneeze.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1967b68dab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/puny-rice-sneeze.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+'@backstage/plugin-home': patch
+---
+
+Export root page route from the home plugin to enable adding links/nav to it from outside the plugin

From 60d118891c3b500a39df4336758f5bc1ace5adad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel <djelcic@spotify.com>
Date: Tue, 6 May 2025 15:35:34 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Add API report change

Signed-off-by: Daniel <djelcic@spotify.com>
---
 plugins/home/report-alpha.api.md | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/plugins/home/report-alpha.api.md b/plugins/home/report-alpha.api.md
index 6033cb47f8..5e43163e31 100644
--- a/plugins/home/report-alpha.api.md
+++ b/plugins/home/report-alpha.api.md
@@ -13,7 +13,9 @@ import { RouteRef } from '@backstage/frontend-plugin-api';
 
 // @alpha (undocumented)
 const _default: FrontendPlugin<
-  {},
+  {
+    root: RouteRef<undefined>;
+  },
   {},
   {
     'page:home': ExtensionDefinition<{