Question: Difference between this entity validator and @backstage/plugin-entity-validation?

[bforbis]

I am looking to start using this plugin, however I'm a bit confused about what I should do with my existing use of @backstage/plugin-entity-validation.

I see the implementation here does not follow the same approach in @backstage/plugin-entity-validation.

The (official?) plugin seems to make a request to the catalog API for entity validation. I assume this allows for some sort of customization on entity validation by the backstage implementers?

[drodil]

This was done before backstage had own entity validator available. Should probably migrate to use that.

[bforbis]

One other big difference is that plugin uses @uiw/react-codemirror which stylistically looks vert different than all the other tools. Do you see that being a problem, or would you consider porting the default editor here to use codemirror?

Just another note, I tried doing the simple thing of just passing <EntityValidationPage /> as a tool in the toolbox extraTools config. This rendered the tool in the UI, but the validate button wasn't working and causing some errors.

For now, I just added a link button on that custom page to the deployed validation page at "/entity-validation"