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andrewlu0

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    Comment #48494495

    just added an example implementation in the xlsx viewer for search, but the code is yours to modify and customize. react-xlsx should expose the necessary functions to implement a c…

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    Comment #48494072

    added some basic filtering/sort/search support, lmk what you think!

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    Comment #48489867

    Hey! Very valid feedback - working on improving the file system component and overall site performance today

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    Comment #48489850

    Responded above but the components like the file viewers should not depend on next. Please lmk if it gets pulled when installing via CLI

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    Comment #48489807

    https://github.com/extend-hq/ui

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    Comment #48489798

    Thank you! Working on optimizing

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    Comment #48489772

    Someone requested web components earlier so let me know if you make that happen!

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    Comment #48489757

    Heard the performance feedback will work on it today!

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    Comment #48489672

    Hey! Those components are used for the demo site, and shouldn’t ship or get installed when you install the components in the registry. None of the ones in the registry should have …

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    Comment #48485695

    TIL those are called Miller columns !

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    Comment #48484933

    Valid feedback a few other comments have mentioned , I’m going to try improving the home page tomorrow

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    Comment #48484917

    We use react-pdf for the viewer which I believe uses pdf JS under the hood We aren’t not trying to reinvent that engine, rather just provide a building block for people to plug in …

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    Comment #48484162

    if you mean our docx viewer/editor specifically its hard to say without manually testing the visual fidelity with Word on some complex docx files you are welcome to try it with you…

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    Comment #48484138

    it should be much faster on the individual component's page the root page is a bit slow with all the viewers, in practice you probably wont have that many in your app on one page

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    Comment #48484126

    coming back to this now and added it in a few places on the demos - everything below the fold is lazy loaded but i will see what we can do to improve the mobile perf

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    Comment #48483846

    i felt like we couldn't build much on top of react-markdown, which i think is what most people are using

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    Comment #48483822

    we built a library @extend-ai/react-xlsx on top of it that renders the parsed contents onto a canvas testing was mostly manual with a test corpus we generated. its not perfect but …

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    Comment #48482295

    nice - did you write a custom parser for PDF/DOCX? we wrote one for XLSX after running into event loop issues with sheet JS

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    Comment #48482106

    thanks! would love to get your feedback i can't promise its visually 1:1 with Word/Excel but its pretty close on the corpus we tested with

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    Comment #48482075

    we'll try to make it more clear on the landing/introduction page!

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    Comment #48481778

    thats fair and definitely something we can try supporting in the future. we started with React because of how familiar models are with shadcn and tailwind we hope this can be usefu…

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    Comment #48481631

    hm seems to look ok on mine - is this on the root page?

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    Comment #48481451

    yes - the pdf/docx viewer use react-virtual to virtualize the pages the zoom should work with the bounding box highlights, we're working on adding rotation support

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    Comment #48480902

    Hi! I'm one of the engineers at Extend that worked on this - one of our other engineers created a Rust XLSX/XLS parser that we ported to WASM to our @extend-ai/react-xlsx package w…

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    Comment #46041195

    ideally we want people to rate based on quality - but i imagine some of the results are biased rn based on loading time