Exploring the Looker Marketplace

Remember the valuable apps, visualizations, and data models (blocks) you found in the Looker Marketplace previously in this book? You can actually contribute to these resources yourself. For example, you can use the power of the extension framework, covered earlier, to build custom applications and share them with the Looker community through the Marketplace. You can also develop your own blocks and custom visualizations, adding them to the Marketplace to share with others.

Getting ready

This section will focus on the general steps applicable to Marketplace development. While specific instructions won’t be provided here, following these generic steps will equip you with a solid understanding of the process. By the end of this section, you’ll find useful links to detailed documentation to develop for the Looker Marketplace.

How to do it...

A Looker block is a pre-built data model designed for common analytical patterns and data...