Taco Toolkit

The Taco Toolkit is a command-line interface (CLI) that lets you create and publish a Tableau web data connector.

Prerequisites

• node version 16 and npm version 7 and above
• Python 3.7 or higher

Installation

1. Open your terminal and type the following command to install the TACO Toolkit:

   npm install -g taco-toolkit
   

   This installs the toolkit globally. The Taco Toolkit includes:

   • Taco CLI
   • WDC boilerplate connector
   • WDC 3.0 SDK
   • Various utilities for building, packaging, and signing your connectors

2. Verify the install by typing the following:

   taco
   

   This command returns the CLI version.

License

The Taco Toolkit End User License Agreement (EULA) is available in the following location: /usr/local/lib/node_modules/taco-toolkit/LICENSE.md.