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