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@backstage/catalog-client
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Contains a frontend and backend compatible client for communicating with the Backstage Catalog.
Backend code may import and use this package directly.
However, frontend code will not want to instantiate a catalog client directly -
use the @backstage/plugin-catalog-react package instead, which exports a
catalogApiRef that can be leveraged like other frontend utility APIs.
FAQs
An isomorphic client for the catalog backend
The npm package @backstage/catalog-client receives a total of 231,096 weekly downloads. As such, @backstage/catalog-client popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @backstage/catalog-client 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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