Documentation for bundling assets like images and CSS into Nebula Supernova Visualizations for Qlik Sense

[ericbuess]

🚀 Feature

Documentation with examples showing how to load non-javascript assets into a Nebula Supernova Visualization that will be imported into Qlik as an extension.

Motivation

It's currently simple to display a png file in a Nebula extension when hosted via nebula serve. However, when running nebula sense to convert it to a Qlik compatible extension, by default, the bundler seems to drop external files like images and CSS. When zipping the dist directory and moving it into Qlik, such assets are no longer available to the extension. Documentation providing instructions about how to tell nebula sense to include assets like images when bundling the project as a Qlik extension would alleviate the confusion.

Additional context

Trying to import the files shows an error that may indicate plugins needed for Rollup to include such file types are missing.

[Caele]

Hello, thanks for your suggestion. We will look into how to add this to the docs/rollup, but in the mean time I suggest you add a manual step to copy over needed files. We might be able to add support for some files, but not sure how general it is possible to make it, haven't looked into that with rollup. But copying files is pretty simple, in one of our extensions we use shx to just copy over some imanges: https://github.com/qlik-oss/sn-network-chart/blob/master/package.json#L14

[steventhomason]

Thank you for the suggestion. The main reason for this request is to be able to use an asset folder with many images, html or css files, etc…. Right now they show up in the QMC, but are stripped when viewing the sources in the developer tools. Also, when trying to import npm libraries the extension breaks. We found a long (not pretty) workaround for this but the error tells us only .js files can be imported into the extension.

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