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If you can productize this, then you can potentially build a business around this. The most feature filled spreadsheet component today is Handsontable. My comp

If you can productize this, then you can potentially build a business around this. The most feature filled spreadsheet component today is Handsontable. My company pays for the enterprise version of it...And we wish there was something better.

degenerate 10y ago
Link for others: https://handsontable.com/examples.html https://handsontable.com/examples.html It's too expensive IMO. But if you are not using it commercially, it's on Github.
- dublinben 10y ago
  You can use the open source version commercially as well, since it is MIT licensed.
- sandGorgon 10y ago
  no - i dont believe its too expensive. the devs are fairly responsive. The thing is, it carries too much baggage. It took them many months to even put it on npm. Adding features takes a lot of effort. Its 149$ for a year - its not at all bad and I love supporting them. But there's space to innovate - look at Airtable. I would love to have a component that looks like Airtable frontend.
- teh_klev 10y ago
  If you're building a commercial app that needs this kind of functionality then $490/seat is not expensive, it's the cost of a fairly cheap developer day. So instead of messing around for days trying to get various partially implemented open source/free "Excel" type grids to work, you pay your money and get the job done more quickly.
rudiger 10y ago
What's wrong with Handsontable? It looks pretty good to me.
- deleted 10y ago
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- dabernathy89 10y ago
  Agreed, I just played with the demo and it's pretty dang slick.
  - arrty88 10y ago
    looks great but is it editable? thats a big req for us
    - sandGorgon 10y ago
      Yes.
mishoo 10y ago
Take a look at Kendo Spreadsheet too: http://demos.telerik.com/kendo-ui/spreadsheet/index http://demos.telerik.com/kendo-ui/spreadsheet/index (bias alert: I'm part of the team) It's not free, but IMO it's the most Excel-like Web-based spreadsheet money can buy. You get support for Excel syntax and formulas, hundreds of Excel functions, XLSX import/export, print-to-PDF, virtual scrolling, OS clipboard integration, etc. — and it all runs in the browser.
- TheAceOfHearts 10y ago
  I'd love it if kendo-ui tool a page from Highcharts and provided a free non-commercial license [0]. I first tried out Highcharts in college, after that I used it for a couple personal projects. Eventually I found myself needing a powerful charting library for my job, and by then I was so familiarized with its capabilities that buying a license was a no-brainer. If I tried and found myself liking kendo-ui, I'd probably end up even more frustrated from not being able to use it for personal projects. EDIT: Just wanna add that you guys have done great work. Poking around the component demos is really slick. [0] https://shop.highsoft.com/faq#Non-Commercial-0 https://shop.highsoft.com/faq#Non-Commercial-0
- sandGorgon 10y ago
  So Handsontable had an open source version that I could try before I bought. I had looked at kendo , but saw that it was packaged as part of a larger suite...Which probably I would overpay for and be useless for me. Second - we use react and kendo had started exploring react only in oct2016 (we have our react HOT app in production since Nov 2015). I'm Not sure what's the status since googling for a react kendo spreadsheet component does not get me much. But I would switch If you had a clean pricing for the spreadsheet, clearly showed by comparison where it was superior..And most importantly, react.

degenerate 10y ago

Link for others: https://handsontable.com/examples.html https://handsontable.com/examples.html It's too expensive IMO. But if you are not using it commercially, it's on Github.

dublinben 10y ago
You can use the open source version commercially as well, since it is MIT licensed.
sandGorgon 10y ago
no - i dont believe its too expensive. the devs are fairly responsive. The thing is, it carries too much baggage. It took them many months to even put it on npm. Adding features takes a lot of effort. Its 149$ for a year - its not at all bad and I love supporting them. But there's space to innovate - look at Airtable. I would love to have a component that looks like Airtable frontend.
teh_klev 10y ago
If you're building a commercial app that needs this kind of functionality then $490/seat is not expensive, it's the cost of a fairly cheap developer day. So instead of messing around for days trying to get various partially implemented open source/free "Excel" type grids to work, you pay your money and get the job done more quickly.

rudiger 10y ago

What's wrong with Handsontable? It looks pretty good to me.

deleted 10y ago
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dabernathy89 10y ago
Agreed, I just played with the demo and it's pretty dang slick.
- arrty88 10y ago
  looks great but is it editable? thats a big req for us
  - sandGorgon 10y ago
    Yes.

mishoo 10y ago

Take a look at Kendo Spreadsheet too: http://demos.telerik.com/kendo-ui/spreadsheet/index http://demos.telerik.com/kendo-ui/spreadsheet/index (bias alert: I'm part of the team) It's not free, but IMO it's the most Excel-like Web-based spreadsheet money can buy. You get support for Excel syntax and formulas, hundreds of Excel functions, XLSX import/export, print-to-PDF, virtual scrolling, OS clipboard integration, etc. — and it all runs in the browser.

TheAceOfHearts 10y ago
I'd love it if kendo-ui tool a page from Highcharts and provided a free non-commercial license [0]. I first tried out Highcharts in college, after that I used it for a couple personal projects. Eventually I found myself needing a powerful charting library for my job, and by then I was so familiarized with its capabilities that buying a license was a no-brainer. If I tried and found myself liking kendo-ui, I'd probably end up even more frustrated from not being able to use it for personal projects. EDIT: Just wanna add that you guys have done great work. Poking around the component demos is really slick. [0] https://shop.highsoft.com/faq#Non-Commercial-0 https://shop.highsoft.com/faq#Non-Commercial-0
sandGorgon 10y ago
So Handsontable had an open source version that I could try before I bought. I had looked at kendo , but saw that it was packaged as part of a larger suite...Which probably I would overpay for and be useless for me. Second - we use react and kendo had started exploring react only in oct2016 (we have our react HOT app in production since Nov 2015). I'm Not sure what's the status since googling for a react kendo spreadsheet component does not get me much. But I would switch If you had a clean pricing for the spreadsheet, clearly showed by comparison where it was superior..And most importantly, react.