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Backstage Developer Portal

Backstage is Spotify's recently-open sourced developer portal. I've been experimenting with it with the eventual goal(s) of supporting:

  1. deployment of OpenAPI 3.0 swagger-UI documentation and "try it" functionality.
  2. associated project documentation.
  3. developers acquiring client credentials to use an API.
  4. templating creation of new projects.
  5. more...

Initial Backstage setup

TODO

Adding our project

After creating this configuration file, simply load it via the Backstage API's page:

backstage register existing AP

This generates both API and TechDocs tiles:

backstage swagger AP

backstage TechDocs

backstage TechDocs for my app