@backstage/frontend-dynamic-feature-loader

Backstage frontend feature loader to load new frontend system plugins exposed as module federation remotes. The frontend feature loader provided in this package works hand-in-hand with the server of frontend plugin module federation remotes server which is part of backend dynamic feature service in package @backstage/backend-dynamic-feature-service.

NOTE: The new frontend system that this package is relaying upon is in alpha, and we do not yet recommend using it for production deployments

Usage

To enable this loader, you should:
- Enable the backend dynamic features in your backend application, as explained in the backend-dynamic-feature-service README.md file
- Add the frontend feature loader to the list of features when creating the frontend application:
```
const app = createApp({
  features: [...someOtherFeatures, dynamicFrontendFeaturesLoader()],
});
```

How to add a frontend plugin for dynamic loading

Adding a frontend plugin (with new frontend system support, possibly in alpha support), is straightforward and consists in:

bundling the frontend plugin with the backstage-cli package bundle command, thus producing a self-contained bundle based on Module Federation.
copying the bundle folder into the Backstage installation dynamic plugins root folder for dynamic loading.

So from a my-backstage-plugin frontend plugin package folder, you would use the following command:

yarn backstage-cli package bundle --output-destination /path/to/dynamic-plugins-root
# Creates a self-contained bundle in the /path/to/dynamic-plugins-root/my-backstage-plugin/ sub-folder