qExt

qExt is a tool to help with the automation of building and deploying of your Qlik Sense visualization extensions. It can set you up with boiler-plate extension development environments and an easier method of importing compiled code to your Qlik server so you don't have to manually delete and import an extension each time.

Check out the full documentation here

Quick Start

read through this to quickly install qext tools and set up a new project

Install qExt

install the main qext tool globally

$ npm install -g qext

Create a new extension

open a terminal window where you want your project to live, and use the qext cli tool to create and install a new extension project

$ qext --create-extension my-extension --install
$ cd my-extension

by default, qext will setup a starter template project. other templates can be passed in via the template flag. available templates can be found here

Build extension

update your extension source files as needed, then run

$ npm run build

the extension project will be compiled and zipped in the output directory

Watch extension

run the qext watch command

$ npm run watch

any changes you make and save to your source files will automatically be rebuilt into your output directory

Deploy extension

add the following deployment configuration to your qext.config.json file

{
	...,
	"serverDeploy": {
		"host": "hostname",
		"isSecure": true,
		"windowsAuth": true
	}
}

then run

$ npm run deploy

the terminal window will prompt for your credentials. provide the credentials for a user with write access to qlik sense extensions and the new extension will be deployed to the server

the serverDeploy configuration may require other paramters based on server configuration. check qExt config for full configuration settings

alternatively, you can authenticate using header authentication. checkout the using header auth section for more info