Backstage Frontend Plugin (New Frontend System)

About This Skill

This skill provides specialized knowledge and workflows for building Backstage frontend plugins using the New Frontend System. It guides the development of UI features including pages, navigation items, entity cards/content, and shared Utility APIs.

What This Skill Provides

1. Specialized workflows - Step-by-step procedures for creating and configuring frontend plugins
2. Best practices - Production-ready patterns for lazy loading, error handling, permissions, and testing
3. Golden path templates - Copy/paste code snippets for common plugin patterns
4. Domain expertise - Backstage-specific knowledge about blueprints, routes, and the plugin system

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when creating UI features for Backstage: pages, navigation items, entity cards/content, or shared Utility APIs.