Catalog Backend

This is the backend part of the default catalog plugin.

It comes with a builtin database backed implementation of the catalog, that can store and serve your catalog for you.

It can also act as a bridge to your existing catalog solutions, either ingesting their data to store in the database, or by effectively proxying calls to an external catalog service.

Getting Started

This backend plugin can be started in a standalone mode from directly in this package with yarn start. However, it will have limited functionality and that process is most convenient when developing the catalog backend plugin itself.

To evaluate the catalog and have a greater amount of functionality available, instead do

# in one terminal window, run this from from the very root of the Backstage project
cd packages/backend
yarn start

This will launch the full example backend, populated some example entities.

Links

• Frontend part of the plugin
• The Backstage homepage