Developer Portal

This is the developer portal for the Province of British Columbia built using Backstage.

Local Development

Required Tools

• Node long-term-support version (i.e. lts/hydrogen)

Setup

• For development purposes, the in memory SQLite database is sufficient (it is already configured)
  • Alternativley, Postgres can be configured
    • Install Postgres locally or via docker
    • Create an app-config.local.yaml file in the project's root directory and provide the following configurations:

    database:
        client: pg
        connection:
            host: ${POSTGRES_HOST}
            port: ${POSTGRES_PORT}
            user: ${POSTGRES_USER}
            password: ${POSTGRES_PASSWORD}

Running

To run the project, use the following at the project's root directory

$ yarn install
$ yarn dev

Dockerfile

Note: The dockerfile is based on the Janus showcase project

Deployment

See the gitops repo.

More information

See the Backstage.io documentation