Allow replacing core plugins

davidfestal commented 2 months ago

Description

This PR allows replacing core Backstage features like scaffolder, catalog, or search, in order to customize them.

For frontend plugins, this is simply done by wiring your own dynamic plugin to a dynamic route with the same path as a standard one (/ for the home page, or catalog for example)
For backend plugins, before installing your own backend plugin replacement, you first have to disable the standard backend plugins statically linked into the backend application with one of the following environment variables:
- DISABLE_STANDARD_CATALOG=true
- DISABLE_STANDARD_SCAFFOLDER=true
- DISABLE_STANDARD_SEARCH=true

Which issue(s) does this PR fix

Fixes issue https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHIDP-1500

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