Hey All,
Wanted to share with you a pet project of mine over the past couple of months. It's called the Web Data Connector Generator, and it's a command line tool to help you build your connector as quickly as possible. I wrote up a quick post highlighting some of the motivations and key features here.
The gist is this: run a single command
yo web-data-connector, answer a few questions, and it scaffolds out the app. Run
grunt, and you have a working copy running on a local server. As you save changes, it validates your syntax / style and recompiles your source code.
Easily test within the SDK simulator, or within Tableau itself. It also stubs out some automated tests (run them with
npm test), and gives you a scaffold to do the Continuous Integration thing.
The hope is that it will take care of a huge amount of boilerplate code for you, give you a first-class development workflow, and let you crank out a large number of high quality connectors for all the data you need to connect to.
Again, check it out the Generator here. Would love to see what you do with it! And any thoughts, issues, and feedback is encouraged here on GitHub.
This is brilliant! It will make the process of making new connectors for all kinds of situations so much simpler.
