🎉 New plugin: Featured Templates - #10324
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Migrate the featured-templates plugin, a New Frontend System home page widget that showcases Software Templates selected by a catalog tag, from the DPG Media plugin repository. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Janssens <benji.janssens@gmail.com>
Restructure the workspace README as the plugin's front door with a package list, quick start, screenshot, and provenance; add a Features section to the plugin README. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Janssens <benji.janssens@gmail.com>
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approvedGitRepositories and enableScripts were written automatically by yarn's lockfile v9 migration to preserve pre-hardening behavior. The workspace has no git dependencies and needs no lifecycle scripts, so the hardened defaults apply cleanly, matching most other workspaces. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Janssens <benji.janssens@gmail.com>
Replaces the imperative IntersectionObserver lifecycle in ScrollControls and the hand-rolled observer mock in tests with useInView and the library's typed test utils. Pinned to 9.5.3, the last release whose test-utils type definitions target jest instead of vitest globals, keeping the strict skipLibCheck build green. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Janssens <benji.janssens@gmail.com>
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Hi @benjidotsh, before this moves forward I'd like clear understanding why this is being added here over being part of the scaffolder. Please bring this up at the next Scaffolder SIG 🙏
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@awanlin no real reason tbh. didn't consider it. 😅 I've put it on the agenda! |
ScrollControls exists to scroll a track, so a missing track is not a state worth representing — the buttons would have nothing to act on. Render it only once the track element is set, making the prop non-nullable and the guard in scroll unnecessary. initialInView stays true: the gate only defers past the render where the track is still null, while the first IntersectionObserver report lands later, so it is what keeps both arrows hidden until their real state is known. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Janssens <benji.janssens@gmail.com>
mockIsIntersecting already wraps the observer callback in act, so wrapping the calls again in the scroll test added nothing. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Janssens <benji.janssens@gmail.com>
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This PR introduces a new plugin called Featured Templates, which adds a home page widget that showcases Scaffolder/Software Templates containing a configurable tag (
featuredby default) to the Backstage home page. (if the Home plugin is installed)The plugin is exclusively built for the New Frontend System and Backstage UI, although it does use the swappable
TemplateCardcomponent, which is by default still a MUI component. There is some CSS in place to make sure the default component renders nicely in this plugin.Demo:
Empty state:
Error state:
Loading state:
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