Tutorials

Texera tutorials help you learn by doing.
Each tutorial walks through a realistic workflow scenario, showing how to use Texera’s visual interface, operators, and execution engine to build and run data analytics applications.

🎯 What to Expect

The tutorials in this section will help you:

• Understand Texera’s workflow-based design step by step.
• Learn how to connect operators, configure parameters, and visualize results.
• Explore practical data use cases, such as text processing, joining datasets, and real-time analysis.
• Get comfortable with extending Texera by creating or modifying operators.

🧱 Structure

Each tutorial consists of:

1. Goal Overview – what you’ll build and what problem it solves.
2. Step-by-Step Instructions – detailed actions to complete the workflow.
3. Key Takeaways – concepts and Texera features you’ll learn.
4. Next Steps – related tutorials or examples to explore further.

🧭 Getting Started

If you’re new to Texera, start with the Getting Started guide to set up your local environment.
Once Texera is running, return here to begin working through the tutorials in order.

📚 Available Tutorials

This section will include multiple tutorials, such as:

• Building your first workflow
• Exploring data transformation operators
• Working with visualization tools
• Combining multiple datasets
• Extending Texera with custom operators

Each tutorial will include screenshots, sample data, and workflow files you can download and import into your Texera instance.

💡 Want to Contribute a Tutorial?

If you’ve built a useful workflow or want to help new users learn Texera, you can contribute your own tutorial:

1. Create a Markdown page under content/docs/tutorials/.
2. Include any relevant .json workflow files or sample datasets.
3. Submit a pull request following our Contribution Guidelines.

Texera tutorials are designed to help you go from understanding concepts to building complete solutions — one workflow at a time.