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Web integration

Integrating nebula.js with your project requires the following steps:

  1. Connect to a Qlik Sense deployment
  2. Load nebula.js core modules
  3. Load chart modules
  4. Configure nucleus
  5. Render charts

Connect to Qlik

The majority of communication between the web and a Qlik Sense deployment happens with a WebSocket connection, how you authenticate and create such a connection depends on the type of deployment you want to connect to. The examples will assume you are connecting to your own Qlik Cloud Services tenant and have already configured it to allow web integrations.

The connection needs to be created using enigma.js which you should load first:

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/enigma.js" crossorigin></script>

Before creating the connection, you need to fetch a schema which helps enigma.js understand how and what methods you can use to communicate with Qlik:

async function connect() {
  const schema = await (await fetch('https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/enigma.js@2.6.3/schemas/12.170.2.json')).json();
}

To create the connection you need to know your QCS tenant url, the qlik-web-integration-id and the GUID of the document you want to open:

async function connect() {
  const schema = await (await fetch('https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/enigma.js@2.6.3/schemas/12.170.2.json')).json();

  const enigmaGlobal = await enigma
    .create({
      schema,
      url: 'wss://<tenant>.us.qlikcloud.com/app/<GUID>?qlik-web-integration-id=<qlik-web-integration-id>',
    })
    .open();

  const enigmaApp = await enigmaGlobal.openDoc('<GUID>');
}

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Load nebula core modules

Load the two core nebula.js modules:

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@nebula.js/supernova" crossorigin></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@nebula.js/nucleus" crossorigin></script>

Load visualization modules

The core modules do not contain any visualizations by themselves, each visualization is its own separate module and needs to be loaded and registered before it can be used.

Official supernova modules from Qlik are published under the @nebula.js scope and are prefixed with sn-.

The available visualizations are as follows:

  • Bar chart: @nebula.js/sn-bar-chart
  • Line chart: @nebula.js/sn-line-chart
  • Pie chart: @nebula.js/sn-pie-chart
  • Sankey chart: @nebula.js/sn-sankey-chart
  • Funnel chart: @nebula.js/sn-funnel-chart
  • Mekko chart: @nebula.js/sn-mekko-chart

You can load a visualization through a <script> tag:

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@nebula.js/sn-bar-chart" crossorigin></script>

which makes it available to you on the global window object as @nebula.js/sn-bar-chart.

Render visualizations

Before rendering the visualization you need to configure nucleus with the supernova types you want to support:

const n = nucleus.createConfiguration({
  types: [
    {
      type: 'barchart',
      load: () => Promise.resolve(window['@nebula.js/sn-bar-chart']),
    },
  ],
});

You can then render a visualization on the fly in an HTMLElement that has a fixed size and provide the initial fields to it:

n(enigmaApp).render({
  element: document.querySelector('#chart'),
  type: 'barchart',
  fields: ['Product', '=sum(Sales)'],
});

If the GenericObject already exists in the app you opened, you can render it by providing its id:

n(enigmaApp).render({
  element: document.querySelector('#chart'),
  id: '<ObjectID>',
});
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