Taqueria - A New Way to Build on Tezos

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What is Taqueria?

Taqueria is an extensible, open source plugin based framework for Tezos dApp development

In more practical terms, Taqueria is a task runner that you can use from the command line or the VS Code command palette to quickly accomplish tasks related to Tezos development. Taqueria uses a plugin architecture to implement tasks that provide complex and domain specific functionality

Taqueria includes:

• A command line interface (CLI) you use in your terminal through a command named taq
• A library of plugins that add tasks to Taqueria
• A VS Code Extension which provides the ability to run Taqueria tasks from the command palette

Installing the Taqueria CLI

The Taqueria CLI is an executable binary named taq installed globally in your shell's $PATH

1. Download the correct build of Taqueria for your operating system
2. Make the Taqueria binary taq executable
3. Add taq to your shell's $PATH

Builds for the latest release of Taqueria:

OS	URL
MacOS	https://taqueria.io/get/macos/taq
Linux	https://taqueria.io/get/linux/taq
Windows	https://taqueria.io/get/windows/taq.exe

Builds are also available on the releases page on Github

Detailed instructions for installing and using Taqueria can be found here

Getting Started

Once installed, Taqueria is run from the command line using the taq command. The basic structure of a Taqueria command is:

taq <taskName> [options]

You can use taq --help to list the available tasks in a given context

Plugins

Taqueria plugins extend the functionality of Taqueria by adding additional tasks that can be run on a project. Currently available plugins are:

name	pluginName	description
LIGO	@taqueria/plugin-ligo	A compiler for the LIGO smart contract language
SmartPy	@taqueria/plugin-smartpy	A compiler for the SmartPy contract language
Flextesa	@taqueria/plugin-flextesa	A sandbox test network running Tezos Flextesa
Taquito	@taqueria/plugin/taquito	A front-end Tezos framework used to originate
TS Generator	@taqueria/plugin-contract-types	A type generator that produces TS types from Michelson code

Taqueria manages plugins by providing installation/uninstallation via the taq install <pluginName> and taq uninstall <pluginName> tasks. Plugins are installed on a per-project basis during which the NPM package is downloaded and installed on the project, and configuration is added in the ./.taq/config.json file

Creating a Taqueria Project

There are two approaches to initializing a Taqueria project: initializing an empty project, or using a pre-configured project scaffold

Initializing an empty Taqueria project

1. Initialize a new project: taq init test-project
2. Change directories: cd test-project
3. Initialize the project as an NPM project: npm init -y
4. Install the LIGO plugin: taq install @taqueria/plugin-ligo
5. Continue steps 4-5 for each additional plugin you want to install

Using a Taqueria Project Scaffold

1. Run the command taq scaffold https://github.com/ecadlabs/taqueria-scaffold-quickstart test-project
2. Change directories: cd test-project
3. Run the project setup command npm run setup
4. Start the app by running npm run start

Building From Source

If you prefer to build the Taqueria binary and plugins locally, follow the steps detailed below

Requirements

• Deno version: "1.18.2"
• NodeJS version: "16.x"
• Docker version: "0.9" or later

Run Build Script

From the root of the Taqueria directory, run the build-all script:

npm run build-all