#Error when starting backend

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heavy pilot
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Hi there,

Hoping someone can assist. I used the demo as a base for creating a new project. I could start the backend before but since recently it is giving me the below error.

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abstract pond
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Hi @heavy pilot, the Demo site is only intended to act as a reference guide and not something to build from. I would highly recommend you follow the Getting Started guide to create your initial Backstage instance: https://backstage.io/docs/getting-started/

As for the issue it seems to do with what ever this is: "Error: IPC request 'DevDataStore.load' with ID 11 timed out". That's where I would start looking. I don't know where "DevDataStore" is coming from, that's not in the Demo site code based or in the Todo plugin code 🤔

heavy pilot
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Thanks @abstract pond , appreciate the feedback. Yes I do understand that it is a reference. We needed to get something up and running quickly and thought we could plug in our own data.

Thanks I did see that error I will dig a little more.

heavy pilot
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Hi there,

So I did some troubleshooting. It seems like it was these 2 plugins that are causing the issues.

@backstage/plugin-techdocs-backend
@backstage/plugin-proxy-backend

I am not sure if there were any updates to these but I thought I would leave it here if anyone else is experiencing the same issue. I commented it out of the index.ts file and it seems to be running fine now.

hollow ferry
abstract pond
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Hi @princess007, that's not a solution as you are removing two core plugins - TechDocs won't work and the Proxy is often used by many frontend only plugins.