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Show HN: Datagridxl.js – No-nonsense fast Excel-like data table library

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Re: Show HN: Datagridxl.js – No-nonsense fast Excel-like data table library

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Post by robbiejs »

Hello HN,

I’m Robbert, the creator of DataGridXL.js.

DataGridXL is a free (and commercial) editable data table library written in ES6.

My goal is to develop the most performant & user-friendly spreadsheet-like data table out there:

- It has zero dependencies. You don’t need any framework to use DataGridXL.

- It is lightweight (~200kb) and easy to use. It does not even require messing with CSS.

- It has its own Virtual DOM implementation to prevent DOM errors.

- Developer friendly. Supports all modern web browsers

Please take a look at the performance demo (https://www.datagridxl.com/demos/one-million-cells) to see the difference with other data grids out there. And let us know if you have any suggestions.

Please let me know if you have any suggestions or comments!

Re: Show HN: Datagridxl.js – No-nonsense fast Excel-like data table library

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Post by pulposus »

robbiejs wrote: post #2

Hello HN, I’m Robbert, the creator of DataGridXL.js. DataGridXL is a free (and commercial) editable data table library written in ES6. My goal is to develop the most performant & user-friendly spreadsheet-like data table out there: - It has zero dependencies. You don’t need any framework to use DataGridXL. - It is lightweight (~200kb) and easy to use. It does not even require messing with CSS. - It has its own Virtua…

I'm not sure if this is just me, but the demos all fail because they try to load https://code.datagridxl.com/datagridxl.js and it's returning a 404.

Re: Show HN: Datagridxl.js – No-nonsense fast Excel-like data table library

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Post by kanobo »

hadrien01 wrote: post #6

So from what I understand this works by displaying data on a JS canvas. How does that work for accessibility? Do screen-readers read the data as if it was an html table?

I haven't dug very deeply, but from what i can tell google sheets also uses a canvas too and it works with screen-readers somehow.

Re: Show HN: Datagridxl.js – No-nonsense fast Excel-like data table library

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Post by mkl »

robbiejs wrote: post #2

Hello HN, I’m Robbert, the creator of DataGridXL.js. DataGridXL is a free (and commercial) editable data table library written in ES6. My goal is to develop the most performant & user-friendly spreadsheet-like data table out there: - It has zero dependencies. You don’t need any framework to use DataGridXL. - It is lightweight (~200kb) and easy to use. It does not even require messing with CSS. - It has its own Virtua…

That title flashing "1 new message" nonsense is incredibly distracting.

Is there a UI way to quickly sort by a column?

Re: Show HN: Datagridxl.js – No-nonsense fast Excel-like data table library

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Post by kanobo »

randtrain34 wrote: post #3

How does that compare to https://github.com/paulhodel/jexcel ?

jexcel is great, it has more features (sorting, formulas, colors, etc)... but those same features are not very performant with many (>1000) rows since each cell is a html table cell. datagridxl looks promising if you need to display lots of data. I'm a fan of any open source data grid library so I'm happy both exists.

Re: Show HN: Datagridxl.js – No-nonsense fast Excel-like data table library

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Post by m1sta_ »

robbiejs wrote: post #2

Hello HN, I’m Robbert, the creator of DataGridXL.js. DataGridXL is a free (and commercial) editable data table library written in ES6. My goal is to develop the most performant & user-friendly spreadsheet-like data table out there: - It has zero dependencies. You don’t need any framework to use DataGridXL. - It is lightweight (~200kb) and easy to use. It does not even require messing with CSS. - It has its own Virtua…

An example using formulas (as javascript lambda functions) would be cool.
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