Merge pull request #26775 from backstage/rugvip/no-balls

docs: remove function call from all backend feature installation instructions

docs/backend-system/architecture/02-backends.md

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ const backend = createBackend();
 backend.add(import('@backstage/plugin-catalog-backend/alpha'));
 
 // Features can also be installed using an explicit reference
-backend.add(scaffolderPlugin());
+backend.add(scaffolderPlugin);
 
 // Start up the backend
 backend.start();

docs/backend-system/architecture/04-plugins.md

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ The `createBackendPlugin` return value is exported as `examplePlugin`, which is
 ```ts
 import { examplePlugin } from 'backstage-plugin-example-backend';
 
-backend.add(examplePlugin());
+backend.add(examplePlugin);
 ```
 
 By convention every plugin package should export its plugin instance as the default export from the package:

docs/backend-system/building-backends/08-migrating.md

@@ -675,7 +675,7 @@ backend.add(
   import('@backstage/plugin-catalog-backend-module-scaffolder-entity-model'),
 );
 /* highlight-add-next-line */
-backend.add(catalogModuleCustomExtensions());
+backend.add(catalogModuleCustomExtensions);
 ```
 
 This also requires that you have a dependency on the corresponding node package,
@@ -762,9 +762,9 @@ const otherPluginModuleCustomExtensions = createBackendModule({
 const backend = createBackend();
 backend.add(import('@backstage/plugin-events-backend/alpha'));
 /* highlight-add-next-line */
-backend.add(eventsModuleCustomExtensions());
+backend.add(eventsModuleCustomExtensions);
 /* highlight-add-next-line */
-backend.add(otherPluginModuleCustomExtensions());
+backend.add(otherPluginModuleCustomExtensions);
 ```
 
 Here we've placed the module directly in the backend index file just to get
@@ -841,7 +841,7 @@ const scaffolderModuleCustomExtensions = createBackendModule({
 const backend = createBackend();
 backend.add(import('@backstage/plugin-scaffolder-backend/alpha'));
 /* highlight-add-next-line */
-backend.add(scaffolderModuleCustomExtensions());
+backend.add(scaffolderModuleCustomExtensions);
 ```
 
 This also requires that you have a dependency on the corresponding node package,

docs/features/software-templates/writing-templates.md

@@ -891,7 +891,7 @@ const scaffolderModuleCustomFilters = createBackendModule({
 const backend = createBackend();
 backend.add(import('@backstage/plugin-scaffolder-backend/alpha'));
 /* highlight-add-next-line */
-backend.add(scaffolderModuleCustomFilters());
+backend.add(scaffolderModuleCustomFilters);
 ```
 
 If you still use the legacy backend system, then you will use the `createRouter()` function of the `Scaffolder plugin`

docs/features/techdocs/how-to-guides.md

@@ -800,7 +800,7 @@ const techdocsCustomBuildStrategy = createBackendModule({
 
 /* highlight-add-start */
 backend.add(import('@backstage/plugin-techdocs-backend/alpha'));
-backend.add(techdocsCustomBuildStrategy());
+backend.add(techdocsCustomBuildStrategy);
 /* highlight-add-end */
 
 backend.start();

docs/integrations/github/org.md

@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ const backend = createBackend();
 
 backend.add(import('@backstage/plugin-catalog-backend/alpha'));
 
-backend.add(githubOrgModule());
+backend.add(githubOrgModule);
 
 backend.start();
 ```

docs/integrations/gitlab/discovery.md

@@ -34,9 +34,9 @@ Then add the following to your backend initialization:
 // optional if you want to use AWS SQS instead of HTTP endpoints to receive external events
 // backend.add(import('@backstage/plugin-events-backend-module-aws-sqs/alpha'));
 // optional - event router for gitlab. See.: https://github.com/backstage/backstage/blob/master/plugins/events-backend-module-gitlab/README.md
-// backend.add(eventsModuleGitlabEventRouter());
+// backend.add(eventsModuleGitlabEventRouter);
 // optional - token validator for the gitlab topic
-// backend.add(eventsModuleGitlabWebhook());
+// backend.add(eventsModuleGitlabWebhook);
 backend.add(import('@backstage/plugin-catalog-backend-module-gitlab/alpha'));
 ```
 

docs/integrations/gitlab/org.md

@@ -39,9 +39,9 @@ Then add the following to your backend initialization:
 // optional if you want to use AWS SQS instead of HTTP endpoints to receive external events
 // backend.add(import('@backstage/plugin-events-backend-module-aws-sqs/alpha'));
 // optional - event router for gitlab. See.: https://github.com/backstage/backstage/blob/master/plugins/events-backend-module-gitlab/README.md
-// backend.add(eventsModuleGitlabEventRouter());
+// backend.add(eventsModuleGitlabEventRouter);
 // optional - token validator for the gitlab topic
-// backend.add(eventsModuleGitlabWebhook());
+// backend.add(eventsModuleGitlabWebhook);
 backend.add(import('@backstage/plugin-catalog-backend-module-gitlab-org'));
 ```
 

docs/plugins/new-backend-system.md

@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ export const examplePlugin = createBackendPlugin({
 The plugin can then be installed in the backend using the returned plugin factory function:
 
 ```ts
-backend.add(examplePlugin());
+backend.add(examplePlugin);
 ```
 
 If we wanted our plugin to accept options as well, we'd accept the options as the second parameter of the register method:
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ class GoogleCloudLogger implements LoggerService {
 const backend = createBackend();
 
 // supplies additional or replacement services to the backend
-backend.add(GoogleCloudLogger.factory());
+backend.add(GoogleCloudLogger.factory);
 ```
 
 ## Testing