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Panel: Building a Healthy Backstage Plugins Ecosystem

on YouTube 34m
Panelat BackstageCon Europe 2026 · on Monday, 2026-03-23· [developer-experience, open-source]

speakers

name:Paul S
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name:Hope H
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name:Heikki H
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name:Peter M
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name:Aramis Sennyey
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resources

video:https://youtu.be/67fFjQMRKyM
slides:none on file

summary

Backstage plugin contributors report concrete pain points and fixes: confusing multi-package architecture and routing makes onboarding slow, so the community pushes golden path documentation, repo skeletons and yarn new templates to speed starts; migration friction from React Router and new backend/front-end systems prompts stricter semantic versioning, quarterly releases and auto-update schedules; teams publish plugins via npm or monorepos, discuss a central skills repository, add end-to-end tests, and plan active/inactive tagging in the community plugins repo.

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chapters (12)

  1. 0:00Backstage plugins ecosystem
  2. 1:05Panelist backgrounds
  3. 3:52Barriers for first-time contributors
  4. 7:48Smoother contributor experience
  5. 11:18Innovation versus maintenance
  6. 16:29Stewardship in plugin growth
  7. 20:21Lightning round: repo management
  8. 23:06Q&A: UI upgrades and forking
  9. 25:00Q&A: plugin duplication
  10. 28:58Q&A: templating and versioning
  11. 32:27Q&A: internal templates
  12. 33:50Closing remarks

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