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example-backend

This package is an EXAMPLE of a Backstage backend.

The main purpose of this package is to provide a test bed for Backstage plugins that have a backend part. Feel free to experiment locally or within your fork by adding dependencies and routes to this backend, to try things out.

Our goal is to eventually amend the create-app flow of the CLI, such that a production ready version of a backend skeleton is made alongside the frontend app. Until then, feel free to experiment here!

Development

To run the example backend, first go to the project root and run

yarn install
yarn tsc
yarn build

You should only need to do this once.

After that, go to the packages/backend directory and run

AUTH_GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID=x AUTH_GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET=x AUTH_GITHUB_CLIENT_ID=x AUTH_GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET=x SENTRY_TOKEN=x LOG_LEVEL=debug yarn start

Substitute x for actual values, or leave them as dummy values just to try out the backend without using the auth or sentry features.

The backend starts up on port 7000 per default.

Populating The Catalog

If you want to use the catalog functionality, you need to add so called locations to the backend. These are places where the backend can find some entity descriptor data to consume and serve.

To get started, you can issue the following after starting the backend, from inside the plugins/catalog-backend directory:

yarn mock-data

You should then start seeing data on localhost:7000/catalog/entities.

The catalog currently runs in-memory only, so feel free to try it out, but it will need to be re-populated on next startup.

Authentication

We chose Passport as authentication platform due to its comprehensive set of supported authentication strategies.

Read more about the auth-backend and how to add a new provider

Documentation