backstage/plugins/search-backend-node/README.md

search-backend-node

This plugin is part of a suite of plugins that comprise the Backstage search platform, which is still very much under development. This plugin specifically is responsible for:

• Allowing other backend plugins to register the fact that they have documents that they'd like to be indexed by a search engine (known as collators)
• Allowing other backend plugins to register the fact that they have metadata that they'd like to augment existing documents in the search index with (known as decorators)
• A scheduler that, at configurable intervals, compiles documents to be indexed and passes them to a search engine for indexing
• Types for all of the above

Documentation on how to develop and improve the search platform is currently centralized in the search plugin README.md.

For a better overview of how the search platform is put together, check the Backstage Search Architecture documentation.