Plugin Development

Plugin development is how you add functionality to your DevPortal instance. The kind of project you create depends on the kind of plugin you want to create:

• Backend Plugin: A plugin that runs on the backend and provides functionality to the frontend.
• Frontend Plugin: A plugin that runs on the frontend and provides functionality to the user.
• Module: A module is a more generic plugin that extends other plugins or DevPortal behavior.

Plugins can be developed using the Backstage plugin development framework, which provides a set of tools and APIs to create and manage plugins. Once ready a plugin can be packaged as a regular (static) plugin or as a dynamic plugin (each form of plugin becomes a different npm package).