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Backstage Plugin Starters

Production-ready TypeScript starter templates for Backstage plugins and custom widgets

£39 Available Now Code

📦 What's Included

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Full Plugin Scaffold

TypeScript project with Backstage plugin structure, routes, components, and API client — ready to extend.

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Custom Widget Template

Dashboard widget with data fetching, filtering, and theme-aware styling. Drop into any Backstage instance.

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Scaffolder Action Template

Custom scaffolder action with input schema, execution logic, and error handling — add your own golden path steps.

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Entity Provider Template

Custom entity provider pattern for ingesting resources into the Software Catalog from any external system.

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Test Suite Included

Jest + React Testing Library setup with example tests for each template. CI-ready.

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Setup Guide

Detailed README covering plugin anatomy, development workflow, deployment, and common pitfalls.

👀 What You Get

📁 Plugin Scaffold

backstage-plugin-starter/
├── src/
│   ├── components/     # React components
│   ├── routes.ts       # Backstage route registration
│   ├── plugin.ts       # Plugin identity & setup
│   └── index.ts        # Public exports
├── dev/                # Dev server for local testing
├── package.json        # Deps, scripts, metadata
└── README.md           # Quick-start guide

🎨 Widget Template

widget-starter/
├── src/
│   ├── WidgetCard.tsx        # Main widget component
│   ├── WidgetTable.tsx       # Data table sub-component
│   ├── useWidgetData.ts      # API fetch hook
│   └── types.ts              # TypeScript interfaces
├── dev/
├── package.json
└── README.md

🔧 Scaffolder Action

scaffolder-action-starter/
├── src/
│   ├── MyCustomAction.ts     # Action logic with input validation
│   ├── MyCustomAction.test.ts
│   └── index.ts              # Module exports
├── package.json
└── README.md

💡 Why These Starters?

Backstage has a steep learning curve. The plugin API, scaffolder system, and widget framework each have their own conventions — and the official docs assume you already understand the architecture.

These starters give you a working, compilable project you can fork and customise immediately. No "copy this boilerplate from three different doc pages" — just npm install and start coding.

Each template follows Backstage's best-practice patterns: proper error boundaries, theme-aware styling, API error handling, and test coverage.

🎯 Who This Is For

Platform Engineers — extending Backstage with custom plugins for your organisation

Backstage Adopters — building your first plugin and need a working reference

Dev Portal Teams — creating custom scaffolder actions for golden paths

Frontend Developers — new to Backstage and want a jumpstart with proper patterns

Get the Starters

Lifetime updates — buy once, get every future revision.

£39

TypeScript · 4 templates · Tests included

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