Shortcut Plugin for Backstage

This plugin provides overview of user stories which are not yet completed but are assigned to a user. In order to retrieve stories you will need to sign in to Backstage using same email address used for Shortcut account.

Rate Limit

The Shortcut REST API limits requests to 200 per minute. Any requests over that limit will not be processed, and will return a 429 (“Too Many Requests”) response code.

Authentication

The Shortcut API uses token-based authentication so in order to retrieve results you will need it. To generate an API token, go to https://app.shortcut.com/settings/account/api-tokens.

Features

• Shortcut stories progress overview.

How to add shortcut plugin to Backstage app:

If you have your own backstage application without this plugin, here it's how to add it:

1. Install the plugin inside backstage/packages/app :

cd packages/app
yarn add @kozmoai/backstage-plugin-shortcut

2. In the app-config.yaml file in the root directory, add shortcut to the proxy object:

proxy:
  ...
  '/shortcut/api':
    target: https://api.app.shortcut.com/api/v3
    headers:
      Shortcut-Token: '${SHORTCUT_API_TOKEN}'

How to add Shortcut stories card to Home page:

In order to add the Shortcut stories card in your Home page, follow the instructions below:

// packages/app/src/components/home/HomePage.tsx
import { HomepageStoriesCard } from '@kozmoai/backstage-plugin-shortcut';
...

export const HomePage = () => {
  <PageWithHeader title="Home" themeId="home">
    <Content>
    ...
        <Grid item md={6} xs={12}>
            <HomepageStoriesCard />
        </Grid>
    ...
    </Content>
  </PageWithHeader>
);

Links

• Backstage
• Get hosted, managed Backstage for your company: https://glint.io