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@backstage/frontend-test-utils
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The new frontend system that this package is part of is in alpha, and we do not yet recommend using it for production deployments
Contains utilities that can be used when testing frontend features such as extensions.
Install the package via Yarn into your own packages:
cd <package-dir> # if within a monorepo
yarn add --dev @backstage/frontend-test-utils
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The npm package @backstage/frontend-test-utils receives a total of 34,300 weekly downloads. As such, @backstage/frontend-test-utils popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @backstage/frontend-test-utils 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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