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On the demo team we end up working with both the Viz API to create and embed native Qlik Sense charts in apps, as well as creating custom components powered by the Qlik Engine using enigma.js, and we do this in Angular, React, and plain html, as we try to demo all of the ways that Qlik can be used. So after my last blog post (Starter project for developing QAP-powered apps with React and enigma.js) we had an idea on the demo team: let's try to unify all of our different custom components and templates. So we've been hard at work accomplishing that.
You may have seen Yianni's last blog post, qdt-components - A Components Library that can be used in simple Html, Angular 5 and React, introducing this effort. The goal is to have the qdt-components library include custom components powered by Qlik Engine, as well as a way to create and embed native Qlik Sense charts. Right now, the qdt-components library contains a few components, but we're not totally ready to start talking about all of them yet, so we're just sticking to the component that allows you to create and embed native Qlik Sense charts by interfacing with the Viz API.
The big addition since Yianni's post is that we've added a React template, so now we have an Angular 5 template, a plain html template, and a React template, all which load the qdt-components, which is pretty cool. This means that the components only need to be built once, but can be used in a project with almost any frontend stack. I say "almost" because in order to use the component that interfaces with the Viz API there's no getting around loading Angular 1.5 and RequireJS into the global namespace, which means they still have the chance to create conflicts. But you can choose not to use the component that interfaces with the Viz API if you don't have a need for native Qlik charts, and it will avoid loading all of the Capability API stuff, but if you choose to use it, you don't have to worry about writing any of the boilerplate you usually do when connecting to the Capability API.
Documentation, examples, and custom components are coming (and oh yea, we plan on using https://picassojs.com/), but that's the update for now. You can check out the qdt-components library and the templates here - Qlik Demo Team · GitHub. And demos of each of the 3 templates below
Angular 5 with qdt-components
Simple html with qdt-components