Patrik Oldsbergexample-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 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 SENTRY_TOKEN=x 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:
curl -i \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"type":"github","target":"https://github.com/spotify/backstage/blob/master/plugins/catalog-backend/fixtures/two_components.yaml"}' \
localhost:7000/catalog/locations
After a short while, you should start seeing data on localhost:7000/catalog/entities.
If you changed the type to file in the command above, and set the target
to the absolute path of a YAML file on disk, you could consume your own experimental data.
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.