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What is SheetXL​

A Data-grid and Spreadsheet.​

The flexibility of an Excel-like experience combined with the power of React embedded directly in your application.

SheetXL aims to combine the flexible user experience of a spreadsheet with a developer customizations of a data-grid to enable a new class of applications.

  • Best-in-class Excel like spreadsheet experience.
  • Powerful developer API using React and Typescript.
  • Designed to scale to large datasets.
  • Open-source MIT licensed application.

Spreadsheets should be components and not just applications.​

By seamlessly integrating spreadsheet capabilities directly into your business applications users will be able to take advantage of streamlined workflow and will no longer need to import/export data.

Why another spreadsheet component?​

As a Microsoft Excel user and a React developer I have often wanted a solution that combines the flexibility and ease of use of Excel with the control and specific capabilities of my custom application.

I wanted my custom applications to have spreadsheet features!

Several great spreadsheet components exists but none of them have:

  • Excel compatibility and features.
  • Simple integration for React developers.
  • Ability to scale to millions or billions of cells.
  • Comprehensive support for keyboard navigation (e.g. tabbing within multi-selected ranges, arrow-keys within cells).
  • Enable advanced copy / paste between Excel/Excel Online/Google Sheets.
  • Easily extendable libraries that use open-source and modern design patterns.
  • Real-time integration to data providing a single source of truth; no copying data between systems using complex APIs.