TensorBoard at HEAD relies on the nightly installation of TensorFlow, so please install TensorFlow nightly for development. To install TensorFlow nightly, pip install the link to the appropriate whl file listed at the TensorFlow repository.
Our decision to develop on TensorFlow nightly has pros and cons. A main advantage is that plugin authors can use the latest features of TensorFlow. A disadvantage is that the previous release of TensorFlow does not suffice for development.
Running TensorBoard automatically asks Bazel to create a vulcanized HTML binary:
bazel run //tensorboard -- --logdir /path/to/logsTo generate fake data for a plugin, run its demo script. For instance, this command generates fake scalar data in /tmp/scalars_demo:
bazel run //tensorboard/plugins/scalar:scalars_demo