Backstage

Backstage is part of AppForge platform.

Backstage is the engine for building and deploying application packages and updates. It's a server side application that provides the following functionality:

• build application installers for all supported operating systems (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux)
• Allows users to search for applications and download installers
• Serves content for application auto-updates

License

Backstage is released under Mozilla Public License 2.0. See LICENSE file for details.

Building and running

Backstage is a Spring Boot application written in Kotlin. Requirements for building and running the application are:

• Java 17 or gigher
• Maven 3.x.x

To run the application, execute the following command:

mvn spring-boot.run.profiles=local spring-boot:run

Before running, check the file application-local.properties and adjust any paths to match your local system.