March 31*, 2023*

Taqueria is an extensible plugin-based framework that provides a seamless development workflow to easily build, test, and deploy your Tezos applications. To try Taqueria or learn more, please visit Taqueria.io.

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Introduction

This final development report updates Taqueria users and stakeholders on ECAD Labs development progress and community engagement from August 1, 2022, to March 31, 2023. Our previous Taqueria development report can be found here.

While our work on this ambitious project has come to an end, we are pleased to announce that Pinnacle Labs will take over as the primary Taqueria maintainer. Pinnacle Labs is headed by Michael Weichert, the former Technical Engineering Lead and Senior Software Engineer for the Taqueria team.

We are confident that Pinnacle Labs shares our vision for the future of the Tezos ecosystem and that their expertise and commitment to excellence will ensure the ongoing success of Taqueria.

Highlights

• Streamlined workflow for easy project setup
• Focused on SmartPy developers and LIGO development feature parity
• Improved environment management, configuration, and account management
• Prioritized developing against the local sandbox for quick bug detection and fixing
• Simplified switching between local, testnet, and mainnet environments
• Updated frontend library, [@taqueria-toolkit](<https://taqueria.io/docs/libraries/toolkit/>)
• Added features and UI improvements to Taqueria VSCode Extension (VScE)
• Improved Flextesa plugin configuration and added additional baking options
• Ligo and SmartPy compilers support native smart contract unit tests, contract templating, and higher-level languages