@backstage/config-loader
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This package provides config loading functionality used by the backend, and CLI.
Do not install this package directly, it is an internal package used by @backstage/cli, and @backstage/backend-common. Depend on either of those instead.
The 'config' package is a popular Node.js configuration management solution. It allows for hierarchical configurations for different deployment environments. Compared to @backstage/config-loader, 'config' is more general-purpose and not specifically tailored for Backstage applications.
The 'dotenv' package loads environment variables from a .env file into process.env. While it is simpler and more focused on environment variables, it lacks the advanced merging and validation features of @backstage/config-loader.
The 'convict' package provides a way to define a schema for your configuration files, validate them, and load them. It offers similar validation capabilities as @backstage/config-loader but is more focused on schema definition and validation.
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Config loading functionality used by Backstage backend, and CLI
The npm package @backstage/config-loader receives a total of 156,907 weekly downloads. As such, @backstage/config-loader popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @backstage/config-loader 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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