Creating Tableau Extensions

If you prefer following written instructions to set up your environment, this is for you. If you prefer video tutorials the rest of this section will cover your environment setup.

In this section, we are going to develop our first Tableau Extension, although, it will not do much for now, we will build our skeleton and make use of all the installed applications, tools and packages.

We will talk about the progressive nature of this course and introduce the various sections.

Gulp is an open-source JavaScript toolkit used as a streaming build system in front-end web development. We will leverage Gulp to automate our various build tasks such as Obfuscation, Minifying our files, SCSS to CSS compilation.

No course can cover everything that you will require. The Web development space is huge, but we will talk about how you can maximize your learning on this course.

This course does require a basic understanding of programming; if you are new to programming or need a refresher course, I would highly recommend spending time to go through the following tutorials

Google Chrome is a cross-platform web browser developed by Google. We will use Google Chrome to help debug and test our Tableau Extension.

Now that we have downloaded the Tableau Extension API, we will go through the various folders, install the Tableau Extension API SDK Components, Build the TypeScript Samples, and test our extensions using a local server.

GitHub is a Git repository hosting service, but it adds many of its own features. While Git is a command-line tool, GitHub provides a Web-based graphical interface. It also provides access control and several collaboration features, such as a wikis and basic task management tools for every project.

I will help you understand the basics of what is a Tableau Extensions. We will talk about the structure and architecture of an Extension, understand what Extensions are and how they are used, and more interestingly, how they are developed.