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POC of Platform API Plugin and an IDP CLI #103

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@taras taras commented Oct 4, 2022

Motivation

We're getting started putting together a demo of #99 and we need to start adding plugins that'll have all of the necessary pieces in them.

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Created @frontside/backstage-plugin-platform and @frontside/backstage-plugin-platform-backend

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@@ -92,6 +93,7 @@ async function main() {
const searchEnv = useHotMemoize(module, () => createEnv('search'));
const appEnv = useHotMemoize(module, () => createEnv('app'));
const humanitecEnv = useHotMemoize(module, () => createEnv('humanitec'));
const ldpEnv = useHotMemoize(module, () => createEnv('ldp'));
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FYI: it's internal developer platform - IDP, not LDP.

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oops!

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cowboyd commented Oct 5, 2022

The skeleton starts to walk around!

2022-10-05 16 05 51

taras and others added 21 commits October 31, 2022 15:40
In order to standup the executable delivery mechanism, we just
hard-coded everything to be local development values and a fixed
version of the executable name. However, the entire point is that
everyone gets their own internal developer platform that is unique to
them. We want to be able to customize that experience and also have it
work in production environments.

This adds the `executableName`, and `appURL`  parameter to
`createRouter` where you can pass in the specific name that you want
your binary package to have. It will then compile it as that
executable, and adjust the install script using a nunjucks template.
One of the really nice things about having your own developer platform
is that we can configure the compiled binary to talk back directly to
the server it was downloaded from.

To accomplish this, we "statically" pass the executable name, the
backend url, and the platform description as arguments to the
compilation. That way we can use them not only to generate help and
binary info for diagnostic purposes, but we will obviously need the
url to connect to the backstage server.
* add scaffold cli action

* rename scaffold to create

* allow yaml argument to create from file or stdin
@taras taras changed the title Internal Developer Platform plugins skeletons POC of Platform API Plugin and an IDP CLI Nov 4, 2022
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