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[React Data Grid](https://adazzle.github.io/react-data-grid/) is a data grid
designed for the ReactJS web framework.

[SheetJS](https://sheetjs.com) is a JavaScript library for reading and writing
data from spreadsheets.

This demo uses React Data Grid and SheetJS to pull data from a spreadsheet and
display the content in a data grid. We'll explore how to import data from files
into the data grid and how to export modified data from the grid to workbooks.

The ["Demo"](#demo) section includes a complete example that displays data from
user-supplied sheets and exports data to XLSX workbooks:

![react-data-grid screenshot](pathname:///rdg/rdg1.png)

:::note Tested Deployments

This demo was tested in the following environments:

| Version         | Date       | Notes                |
|:----------------|:-----------|:---------------------|
| `7.0.0-beta.19` | 2023-12-04 |                      |
| `7.0.0-beta.41` | 2023-12-04 | Editing did not work |

:::

:::danger pass

When this demo was last tested, the grid correctly displayed data but could not
be edited by the user.

The current recommendation is to use version `7.0.0-beta.19`.

:::

## Integration Details

[The "Frameworks" section](/docs/getting-started/installation/frameworks) covers
installation with Yarn and other package managers.

Using the `npm` tool, this command installs SheetJS and React Data Grid:

<CodeBlock language="bash">{`\
npm i --save https://cdn.sheetjs.com/xlsx-${current}/xlsx-${current}.tgz react-data-grid@7.0.0-beta.41`}
</CodeBlock>

Methods and components in both libraries can be loaded in pages using `import`:

```js
import { read, utils, writeFile } from 'xlsx';
import DataGrid, { Column } from "react-data-grid";
```

#### Rows and Columns state

`react-data-grid` state consists of an Array of column metadata and an Array of
row objects. Typically both are defined in state:

```jsx
import DataGrid, { Column } from "react-data-grid";

export default function App() {
  const [rows, setRows] = useState([]);
  const [columns, setColumns] = useState([]);

  return ( <DataGrid columns={columns} rows={rows} onRowsChange={setRows} /> );
}
```

The most generic data representation is an array of arrays. To sate the grid,
columns must be objects whose `key` property is the index converted to string:

```ts
import { WorkSheet, utils } from 'xlsx';
import { textEditor, Column } from "react-data-grid";

type Row = any[];
type AOAColumn = Column<Row>;
type RowCol = { rows: Row[]; columns: AOAColumn[]; };

function ws_to_rdg(ws: WorkSheet): RowCol {
  /* create an array of arrays */
  const rows = utils.sheet_to_json(ws, { header: 1 });

  /* create column array */
  const range = utils.decode_range(ws["!ref"]||"A1");
  const columns = Array.from({ length: range.e.c + 1 }, (_, i) => ({
    key: String(i), // RDG will access row["0"], row["1"], etc
    name: utils.encode_col(i), // the column labels will be A, B, etc
    editor: textEditor // enable cell editing
  }));

  return { rows, columns }; // these can be fed to setRows / setColumns
}
```

In the other direction, a worksheet can be generated with `aoa_to_sheet`:

```ts
import { WorkSheet, utils } from 'xlsx';

type Row = any[];

function rdg_to_ws(rows: Row[]): WorkSheet {
  return utils.aoa_to_sheet(rows);
}
```

:::caution pass

When the demo was last refreshed, row array objects were preserved.  This was
not the case in a later release.  The row arrays must be re-created.

The snippet defines a `arrayify` function that creates arrays if necessary.

```ts
import { WorkSheet, utils } from 'xlsx';

type Row = any[];

// highlight-start
function arrayify(rows: any[]): Row[] {
  return rows.map(row => {
    var length = Object.keys(row).length;
    for(; length > 0; --length) if(row[length-1] != null) break;
    return Array.from({length, ...row});
  });
}
// highlight-end

function rdg_to_ws(rows: Row[]): WorkSheet {
  return utils.aoa_to_sheet(arrayify(rows));
}
```

:::

## Demo

1) Create a new TypeScript `create-react-app` app:

```bash
npx create-react-app sheetjs-rdg --template typescript
cd sheetjs-rdg
```

2) Install dependencies:

<CodeBlock language="bash">{`\
npm i -S https://cdn.sheetjs.com/xlsx-${current}/xlsx-${current}.tgz react-data-grid@7.0.0-beta.41`}
</CodeBlock>

3) Download [`App.tsx`](pathname:///rdg/App.tsx) and replace `src/App.tsx`.

```bash
curl -L -o src/App.tsx https://docs.sheetjs.com/rdg/App.tsx
```

4) Start the development server:

```bash
npm start
```

#### Testing

5) When the page loads, it will fetch https://docs.sheetjs.com/pres.numbers,
parse with SheetJS, and load the data in the data grid.

6) Click one of the "export" buttons to export the grid data to file.