@backstage/plugin-permission-node
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Common permission and authorization utilities for backend plugins
Common permission and authorization utilities for backend plugins. For more information, see the permissions documentation on Backstage.io.
Casbin is an authorization library that supports access control models like ACL, RBAC, and ABAC. It provides a flexible and powerful way to manage permissions and access control, similar to @backstage/plugin-permission-node, but with broader support for different access control models.
ACL (Access Control List) is a package for managing user roles and permissions in Node.js applications. It provides a simpler approach to access control compared to @backstage/plugin-permission-node, focusing on role-based access control (RBAC).
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Common permission and authorization utilities for backend plugins
The npm package @backstage/plugin-permission-node receives a total of 554,810 weekly downloads. As such, @backstage/plugin-permission-node popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @backstage/plugin-permission-node 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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