🚀 Feature: Add the ability to generate a web-library plugin with backstage-cli

🔖 Feature description

backstage-cli can bundle different kinds of Backstage plugins. You can see a complete list of available package roles in the source code. There are several packages that use this role: @backstage/theme and @backstage/version-bridge .

Unfortunately, backstage-cli doesn’t support creating a plugin with a web-library role.

🎤 Context

One of our clients has new contributors to their inner source Backstage portal. They would like to be able to create web-library plugins. They would like to be able to tell their developers to use the CLI, but this is not currently possible.

✌️ Possible Implementation

This conversation came up in Discord where @Rugvip suggested that to implement this, we need to add a factory and a template.

Several existing factories can be used for inspiration. There are also existing templates that can be found here.

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🏢 Have you read the Code of Conduct?

• I have read the Contributing Guidelines

Are you willing to submit PR?

Yes, I am willing to submit a PR!

[taras]

@kurtaking 👋 thank you for picking this up.

@backstage/plugin-explore-react is a good example of a minimal web-library.

A good place to start could be to include the following,

• /package.json
• /README.md
• /.eslintrc.js
• /src/index.ts
• /src/setupTests.ts

@Rugvip do we need to add anything else?

[jhaals]

👏 Thanks!