I am unsure of the places that core uses the taxonomy_index.
However, I do know that its pretty useless unless you only care about node references to taxonomy terms.
The module taxonomy_entity_index exists to fix this problem for Drupal 7.
I would wager that since Entity API is in backdrop, you'd want this functionality.
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@yorkshirepudding thank you for the additional info on improving discoverability and a handy way to keep a list of projects for reuse.
Why not add a Github star?
It is a good point @izmeez and when I was researching repo discoverability I found that GitHub search does prioritise matches with more stars. This is what I was researching for:...
Why not add a Github star?
Do you have a separate development environment and transfer database and config between sites?
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