From 7936a0643d5785fd0001d6f2d2ac940112576c72 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bilawal Hameed <bil@spotify.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2020 15:17:28 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add docs and enable cookiecutter to support other templates

---
 README.md                     | 10 ++++++++++
 tools/cookiecutter/Dockerfile |  2 --
 tools/cookiecutter/init.sh    | 10 ++++++++++
 3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100755 tools/cookiecutter/init.sh

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 384cb54b65..ef5b88b0d6 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -8,6 +8,16 @@ Backstage is an open platform for building developer portals.
 
 ## Getting started
 
+## Plugins
+
+### Creating a Plugin
+
+Run the following:
+
+```terminal
+$ ./tools/cookiecutter/init.sh frontend/packages/plugins/_template --output-dir frontend/packages/plugins
+```
+
 ## Documentation
 
 ## License
diff --git a/tools/cookiecutter/Dockerfile b/tools/cookiecutter/Dockerfile
index f9a1629247..9affb40d0f 100644
--- a/tools/cookiecutter/Dockerfile
+++ b/tools/cookiecutter/Dockerfile
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
 FROM python:3.8-slim
-
 RUN pip install cookiecutter==1.7.0 --index-url https://pypi.python.org/simple
-
 ENTRYPOINT [ "cookiecutter" ]
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tools/cookiecutter/init.sh b/tools/cookiecutter/init.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..717ab50cd3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/cookiecutter/init.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+set -e
+
+# Build the container
+docker build $(pwd)/tools/cookiecutter -t backstage/tools/cookiecutter --quiet
+
+# Run cookiecutter with our arguments
+COOKIECUTTER_FLAGS=${@:-""}
+docker run -it -v $(pwd):/app -w /app backstage/tools/cookiecutter $COOKIECUTTER_FLAGS