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Backstage

Score10 out of 10

3 Reviews and Ratings

What is Backstage?

Backstage is an open source framework for building developer portals. Powered by a centralized software catalog, Backstage restores order to microservices and infrastructure and enables product teams to ship code quickly without compromising autonomy.

Categories & Use Cases

Best open source project for developer portal

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Backstage to develop our internal developer portal within our org. Before we introduced Backstage, there were different tools offered by different teams in difference places. There were no centralized view to see how many tools we had. Now with this new portal, all tools exists in the same platform, and each team can offer their services as backstage plugins.

Pros

  • developer portal
  • easy to onboard
  • easy to extend

Cons

  • it may provide more modules that can solve common problems

Most Important Features

  • plugin framework
  • open source
  • good community

Return on Investment

  • It speeds up our progress on building our own developer portal
  • It's free to use so very little investment

Other Software Used

CircleCI, Datadog, MongoDB Atlas