From the course: Advanced Power BI Custom Visuals with d3.js

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Licensing, software, and version requirements

Licensing, software, and version requirements - Power BI Tutorial

From the course: Advanced Power BI Custom Visuals with d3.js

Licensing, software, and version requirements

- [Instructor] By the end of this video, you'll have the software and language support you need to start installing the Power BI API files. So, by the end of this video, you should be able to run the pbiviz command in your terminal or command prompt. First things first, to publish your custom visual, you will need a pro-license. You can sign up for a free trial here. Next, you'll need a text editor, preferably one that recognizes TypeScript and I'll be using VS Code, which is not the same as its big brother, Visual Studio. Code is free and works on Macs and PCs. And it's good with JavaScript and TypeScript. If you're on Windows, you will need PowerShell 4 or later. On a Mac, terminal is fine. Next, we're going to look at Node and NPM. Before I give you any instructions on this, note that Node has lots of versions and you can use a version manager, such as NVM to help manage these changes. Node.js is an open source server environment. It lets you run your app as though your laptop is a…

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