fabricstack

The catalog of tools for Microsoft Fabric developers.
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A curated, neutral catalog of tools, libraries, frameworks, SDKs, CLIs, MCP servers, IDE extensions, templates, and services for working with Microsoft Fabric and Power BI.

The site doesn't rank, rate, or recommend. Inclusion is curated against published criteria: tools that meet them are in, tools that don't, aren't. Each tool keeps its own license, shown on its page.

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Contributing

There are two ways to get a tool into the catalog. Both start by checking the inclusion criteria: in short, it must be a tool (not a blog post, course, or tutorial), publicly accessible, and useful for Microsoft Fabric and/or Power BI development.

Option 1: Submit an issue (easiest)

Open a tool submission issue. The form captures every field below; the maintainer reviews it and, if approved, opens the pull request for you.

Option 2: Open a pull request

Add one markdown file at src/content/tools/{slug}.md (the slug becomes the URL, e.g. dax-studio.md → /tools/dax-studio). Use the template below.

Found an error in an existing entry? Every tool page has a Suggest edit link that opens GitHub's editor for that file; or edit it directly and open a PR. To deprecate a tool, set status: deprecated.

See docs/contributing.md for the full guide and docs/tag-conventions.md for tagging.

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Tool entry template

Copy this into src/content/tools/{slug}.md and fill it in. Frontmatter is validated at build time; a missing required field or an unknown enum value fails the build.

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title: Example Tool                 # Display name. Required.
description: One or two sentences shown on cards. Required.
url: https://example.com            # Primary link (homepage or repo). Required.
docs_url: https://example.com/docs  # Optional.
repo_url: https://github.com/org/example  # Optional, if different from url.
category: platform-apis             # One value, see list below. Required.
type: cli                           # One value, see list below. Required.
tags: [official, automation]        # 0–6 lowercase, hyphenated tags. Optional.
pricing: free                       # free | freemium | paid. Required.
source: open-source                 # open-source | source-available | proprietary. Required.
maintainer: microsoft               # microsoft | community | vendor. Required.
author: Example Org                 # Person/org behind it. Required.
language: Python                    # Primary language. Optional.
status: ga                          # preview | ga | deprecated. Optional, defaults to ga.
added: 2026-06-01                   # YYYY-MM-DD. Set by the maintainer at merge.
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## What it does

One short paragraph expanding on the description.

## Why use it

Concrete scenarios and use cases.

## Getting started

Install command, quickstart, or a pointer to the docs.

Aim for 100–500 words in the body, keep code blocks under ~20 lines, and write in a neutral, factual reference voice (no "we love this tool"). If you're submitting via PR, you can leave added for the maintainer to set at merge.

Field reference

Field	Allowed values
category	platform-apis · devops-cicd · ai-mcp · semantic-modeling · dax-performance · reporting-embedding · ide-extensibility · data-engineering · data-science-ml · data-warehouse · real-time-intelligence · databases · data-factory-integration · governance-admin
type	cli · sdk · api · mcp · library · framework · extension · desktop-app · web-app · template · service
pricing	free · freemium · paid
source	open-source (OSI license) · source-available (visible, non-OSI) · proprietary (closed)
maintainer	microsoft · community · vendor
status	preview · ga · deprecated

A tool belongs to exactly one category: pick the discipline it primarily serves, or the Fabric workload it targets. The schema is the source of truth: src/content/config.ts.

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Local development

Requires Node.js 20.3+ (or 18.20.8+ / 22+).

npm install
npm run dev        # dev server at http://localhost:4321
npm run build      # production build → dist/ (favicons + OG image + Pagefind index)
npm run preview    # serve the production build locally
npx astro check    # type-check

Built with Astro + Tailwind CSS, content collections validated with Zod, client-side search via Pagefind. Tool favicons and the social card are generated at build time by scripts in scripts/. Please run npm run build and npx astro check before opening a PR.

Repo layout

src/content/tools/   # one markdown file per catalog entry
src/content/config.ts# Zod schema + controlled vocabularies
src/pages/           # routes (home, browse, tool/category pages, etc.)
src/components/       # ToolCard, Badge, FilterSidebar, Logo, …
docs/                # contributing, inclusion criteria, tag conventions, CoC
scripts/             # build-time favicon + OG-image generation

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Code of conduct

By participating you agree to the Code of Conduct.

License

• Site code: MIT
• Catalog content (src/content/tools/): CC BY 4.0, licensed so that by contributing an entry you agree to license it under CC BY 4.0.
• Each listed tool is governed by its own license, shown on its detail page.