Creating Tableau Extensions

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.

Node.js is an open-source, cross-platform, JavaScript run time environment that executes JavaScript code outside of a browser. Node.js comes with the Node Package Manager (NPM) that helps us install the required software.

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.

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

ESLint is a static code analysis tool for identifying problematic patterns found in JavaScript code. Rules in ESLint are configurable, and customized rules can be defined and loaded. ESLint covers both code quality and coding style issues. This will help reduce bugs as help ensure the quality of our code.