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docs: improve cross-references for installing plugins page

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Update the Building Apps overview to reference the new installing
plugins page instead of duplicating feature discovery content. Add
cross-references between the installing plugins page, the architecture
feature discovery docs, the plugin conversion page, and the extension
configuration page.

Signed-off-by: Patrik Oldsberg <poldsberg@gmail.com>
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2026-03-04 12:14:48 +01:00
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## Feature Discovery
For a practical guide on how to install plugins in your app, see [Installing Plugins](../building-apps/05-installing-plugins.md).
App feature discovery lets you automatically discover and install features provided by dependencies in your app. In practice, it means that you don't need to manually `import` features in code, but they are instead installed as soon as you add them as a dependency in your `package.json`.
Because feature discovery needs to interact with the compilation process, it is only available when using the `@backstage/cli` to build your app. It is hooked into the WebPack compilation process by scanning your app package for compatible dependencies, which are then made part of the app compilation bundle.