No Node is Good News

[acgentry]

Pardon the stupid question, my assumption is that this project only works within node, is there anyway to make this a purely client side project (akin to xlsxjs)?

To clarify, when using browserify the module in a non-node project getting the following error:
process.binding is not supported

So my assumption is that it must use node for file system access, it would be great if there is a shim/factory pattern that would allow me to use a serialized file object in the browser.

Thanks in advance!

[danlannz]

👍 I'm also having this trouble in an universal/isomorphic app, would be great if there was a workaround

[RudolfVonKrugstein]

+1

[danlannz]

ended up using this library instead, https://github.com/JoseBarrios/async-xlsx features aren't as good as exceljs but it works on both client and server

[guyonroche]

I agree, browserifying would be a good plus. The big thing working against me is free time.
I've added it to my TODO list

[saadq]

I would also be eternally grateful if you Browserified this. I think this module has the easiest API and makes it very easy to style. I've been trying to write a chrome extension that creates and then downloads an excel file, and the other client-side xls modules don't seem to really work well with Browserify.

[novyo]

I also think that an non-node version of your library will be very useful for a lot of people :)

[seanodotcom]

+1 for straight-up JS (the way most people are still doing it)

[fredguth]

+1

[kachkaev]

This sounds like an awesome feature to have. Who is using what workarounds meanwhile guys?

[gruentee]

I, too, would love to see this feature!

[TimGeisler]

I would also use this library in a purely client-side project. We are currently using https://github.com/SheetJS/js-xlsx, which currently seems not to be maintained.

[saadq]

I ended up going with a bit more of a hacky solution, which is to generate a .xls file from an HTML table. Just google "html table to excel sheet jsfiddle" and there are several ways of doing it. And styles that you have on the <tr> or <td> elements will carry over to the excel sheet.

[ayedfaisel]

Any progress?

We are currently using https://github.com/SheetJS/js-xlsx, which currently seems not to be maintained.

There is https://github.com/protobi/js-xlsx which is a fork from the original project and unlike the original it finally has cell styles and some other features.

But having exceljs for browser would be great.

[csvan]

+1