search-backend-node

This plugin is part of a suite of plugins that comprise the Backstage search platform. This particular plugin is responsible for all aspects of the search indexing process, including:

• Providing connections to search engines where actual document indices live and queries can be made.
• Defining a mechanism for plugins to expose documents that they'd like to be indexed (called collators).
• Defining a mechanism for plugins to add extra metadata to documents that the source plugin may not be aware of (known as decorators).
• A scheduler that, at configurable intervals, compiles documents to be indexed and passes them to a search engine for indexing.
• A builder class to wire up all of the above.
• Naturally, types for all of the above.

Documentation on how to develop and improve the search platform is currently centralized in the search plugin README.md.

For a better overview of how the search platform is put together, check the Backstage Search Architecture documentation.