Scaffolder contrib tools

Testing Templates with Dry-run

Scaffolder templates support anything that backstage.io and custom actions can do, so testing them is hard without actually running the instance of Backstage that they're designed for.

Please leave feedback on the RFC on your experience with this approach.

The command line script might offer a way for you to do so using the dry-run API used for the Template Editor. Run it against a running instance, either locally or remote, and use it like

scaffolder-dry http://localhost:7007/ template-directory values.yml output-directory

If you're using backend permissions, pass a front-end auth token from a current browser session via --token $FRONTEND_TOKEN.