The visualizations and components that come out of the box with Qlik Sense are, although improving with each version of Qlik Sense, somewhat limited. Very soon, as you progress with your Qlik Sense project, you will hit a brick wall of requirements coming from your user audience, which cannot be implemented using the native objects, and you will need to resort to either finding an existing open source project online that solves that particular requirement, or you will need to build a visualization or component yourself using the Extensions and Qlik APIs.

This chapter has covered in great depth the way in which an extension project is structured. It has described its files and highlighted some best practices on how to approach a new code project to be implemented within Qlik. Furthermore, the property panel and the Generic Objects structures were explored and explained...