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Backstage is an open platform for building developer portals.
The philosophy behind Backstage is simple: don't expose your engineers to the full complexity of all your infrastructure tooling and services -- hide it behind a consistent, centralized and delightful interface.
The philosophy behind Backstage is simple: don't expose your engineers to the full complexity of all your infrastructure tooling and services -- hide it behind a _single_ centralized and consistent interface.
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The Backstage platform consists of a number of different components:
- **frontend** Main web application that users interact with. It's built up by a number of different _Plugins_. Plugins all use a common set of platform API's and reusable UI components. Each plugin is treated as a self-contained web app and can include almost any type of content.
- **frontend** Main web application that users interact with. It's built up by a number of different _Plugins_. Plugins all use a common set of platform API's and reusable UI components. Each plugin is treated as a self-contained web app and can include almost any type of content. Plugins can fetch data either from the _backend_ or through any RESTful API exposed through the _proxy_.
- **backend** GraphQL aggregation service that holds the model of your software ecosystem, including organisational information and what team owns what software. The backend also has a Plugin model for extending its graph.
- **proxy** Terminates HTTPS and exposes any RESTful API to Plugins.
- **identity** A backend service that holds your organisation's metadata.