Qlik Branch, as it defines itself, is a game-changing platform for web developers using Qlik's APIs to accelerate innovation in bringing the best ideas to market. Rooted in open source philosophy, all projects are freely distributed and modified, allowing faster collaboration and innovation.

The URL is http://branch.qlik.com/  ,and the website looks as follows:

The positive thing about Branch is that you have a rich Qlik community contributing to various kind of projects based on top of the Qlik APIs, which are not necessarily visualizations only. You can find interesting integrations for WebSockets and PowerShell modules, as well as components to better control your Qlik Sense dashboards. It is a good collection of libraries to see how specific problems were solved using the Qlik Engine and how you can use the same code in your own projects.

The Qlik Branch page and community is actively supported by Qlik, and you have a dedicated Qlik Developer Relations team trying to promote projects in Branch, but they are also there to help you if you have got questions around the APIs. Furthermore, you can find exciting blogs on the latest endeavors in Qlik Branch, as well as exciting implementations on newly available features of Qlik as they are being released.

The downside of it is that the collection of projects is organized badly. They don't have categories for an easy browse, and they are not sorted based on a specific rank. Furthermore, as it's a relatively small open source community, the code is very often outdated or of low quality. It is therefore never recommended to use Qlik extensions from Branch, as they are in your Qlik Sense productions projects without an additional vetting exercise of whether they are stable enough to run on your latest Qlik Sense version. Given the pace at which Qlik releases its updates and upgrades to the APIs, unfortunately a large number of projects in Branch are buggy and outdated.

Nevertheless, it's an excellent platform to get ideas from and to copy snippets of code and see how others have technically solved similar challenges you may be facing.