# Backstage

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## What is Backstage?

Backstage is an open platform for building developer portals.

## Getting started

### Protobuf Definitions

To generate the Protobuf definitions in Go and TypeScript, run the following command from the root with [Prototool](https://github.com/uber/prototool):

```bash
$ prototool generate ./proto
```

See [proto/README.md](proto/README.md) for more information.

## Plugins

### Creating a Plugin

Run the following:

```bash
$ ./tools/cookiecutter/init.sh frontend/packages/plugins/_template --output-dir frontend/packages/plugins
```

This will generate a plugin in the `frontend/packages/plugins` folder. It is important to note you will still need to include the plugin in your `frontend/packages/app` in the `package.json`. You will then be able to import it as follows:

```bash
$ ./tools/cookiecutter/init.sh frontend/packages/plugins/_template --output-dir frontend/packages/plugins
plugin_name [example-plugin]: github-api

$ vim frontend/packages/app/package.json
# Add the following line to your package.json
# Note all plugins are prefixed with "plugin-" by default with a version number of "0.0.0"
# "@backstage/plugin-github-api": "0.0.0",

$ vim frontend/packages/app/src/App.tsx
# Add the following line to import your generated component
# import { ExampleComponent } from '@backstage/plugin-github-api';
# <ExampleComponent />
```

## Documentation

## License

Copyright 2020 Spotify AB.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0