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@backstage/plugin-permission-common
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Isomorphic types and client for Backstage permissions and authorization
Isomorphic types and client for Backstage permissions and authorization. For more information, see the permissions documentation on Backstage.io.
Casbin is a powerful and efficient open-source access control library that supports various access control models like ACL, RBAC, and ABAC. It provides a flexible way to define permissions and policies, similar to @backstage/plugin-permission-common, but is more general-purpose and can be used outside of Backstage.
AccessControl is a Node.js module that provides Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) for your application. It allows you to define roles and permissions in a flexible way. While it focuses on RBAC, it offers similar functionality to @backstage/plugin-permission-common in terms of defining and managing permissions.
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Isomorphic types and client for Backstage permissions and authorization
The npm package @backstage/plugin-permission-common receives a total of 371,389 weekly downloads. As such, @backstage/plugin-permission-common popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @backstage/plugin-permission-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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