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[!CAUTION] This package is deprecated and will be removed in a near future, so please follow the deprecated instructions for the exports you still use.
Common functionality library for Backstage backends, implementing logging, error handling and similar.
Add the library to your backend package:
# From your Backstage root directory
yarn --cwd packages/backend add @backstage/backend-common
then make use of the handlers and logger as necessary:
import {
errorHandler,
getRootLogger,
notFoundHandler,
requestLoggingHandler,
} from '@backstage/backend-common';
const app = express();
app.use(requestLoggingHandler());
app.use('/home', myHomeRouter);
app.use(notFoundHandler());
app.use(errorHandler());
app.listen(PORT, () => {
getRootLogger().info(`Listening on port ${PORT}`);
});
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Common functionality library for Backstage backends
The npm package @backstage/backend-common receives a total of 130,605 weekly downloads. As such, @backstage/backend-common popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @backstage/backend-common demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 3 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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