The Software Templates part of Backstage is a tool that can help you create Components inside Backstage. It by default has the ability to load skeletons of code, template in some variables and then publish the template to some location like GitHub.
The Software Templates are available under /create, and if you've followed
Getting Started with Backstage, you should be able to
reach http://localhost:3000/create.
You should get something that looks similar to this:
When you select a template that you want to create, you'll be taken to the next page which may or may not look different for each template. Each template can ask for different input variables, and they are then passed to the templater internally.
After filling in these variables, you'll get some more fields to fill out which
are required for backstage usage. The owner, which is a user in the backstage
system, and the storePath which right now must be a Github Organisation and a
non-existing github repository name in the format organistaion/reponame.
Once you've entered values and confirmed, you'll then get a modal with live progress of what is currently happening with the creation of your template.
It shouldn't take too long, and you'll have a success screen!
If it fails, you'll be able to click on each section to get the log from the step that failed which can be helpful to debug.
When it's been created you'll see the View in Catalog button, which will take
you to the registered component in the catalog:
And then you'll also be able to see it in the Catalog View table
