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Importabular (MIT license) allows your users to paste data from excel without investing in a 800$ spreadsheet lib

https://renanlecaro.github.io/importabular/
submitted this linkon September 17, 2020
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    Hey Renan, app seems cool. Don't quite understand though, 'allows your users to paste data from excel', isn't that already possible?

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      So, this is for web developer that made a web app, and want a user friendly "data importer" for their app. A new user has, for example, a mailing list in excel format, on his computer, and wants to enter it in the app, with one column for name, email, gender .. whatever.

      The app needs to have a feature for this, and there are many ways to handle it. This library is for letting users directly copy their data from excel, and paste it on the website.

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    Hi all, I wanted to add spreadsheet copy/paste support to my app but couldn't find a lib that does this and :

    • is lightweight
    • is free or very cheap

    So I decided to try to make one, and it's working alright. It's still a very early version, not battle tested, but i think the offering is quite unique so i wanted to share it here :)
    I'm not making any money out of it, and there's no plan to monetize it, the competition in that space is way too high for me to try to enter it.