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GatsbyJS is a framework for creating websites. It uses React components for page templates and GraphQL for loading data.

SheetJS is a JavaScript library for reading and writing data from spreadsheets.

This demo uses GatsbyJS and SheetJS (through the gatsby-transformer-excel¹ transformer) to pull data from a spreadsheet and display the content in a page.

The "Complete Example" section includes a complete website powered by an XLSX spreadsheet.

:::info pass

gatsby-transformer-excel is maintained by the Gatsby core team and all bugs should be directed to the main Gatsby project. If it is determined to be a bug in the parsing logic, issues should then be raised with the SheetJS team.

:::

:::caution pass

gatsby-transformer-excel uses an older version of the library. It can be overridden through a package.json override in the latest versions of NodeJS:

{\ { "overrides": { "xlsx": "https://cdn.sheetjs.com/xlsx-${current}/xlsx-${current}.tgz" } }}

:::

:::danger Telemetry

GatsbyJS collects telemetry by default. The telemetry subcommand can disable it:

npx gatsby telemetry --disable

:::

Integration Details

flowchart LR
  file[(workbook\nfile)]
  subgraph SheetJS operations
    filenode[File\nNode]
    datanode[Data\nNodes]
  end
  aoo(array of\nobjects)
  html{{HTML\nTABLE}}
  file --> |Source\nPlugin| filenode
  filenode --> |Transformer\nPlugin| datanode
  datanode --> |GraphQL\nQuery| aoo
  aoo --> |React\nJSX| html

In the GatsbyJS data system, source plugins read from data sources and generate nodes represent raw data. Transformer plugins transform these nodes into other nodes that represent processed data for use in pages.

This example uses gatsby-source-filesystem² to read files from the filesystem and gatsby-transformer-excel transformer to perform the transform.

Installation

The SheetJS NodeJS module will be referenced by gatsby-transformer-excel.

Before installing, to ensure that the transformer uses the latest version of the library, the overrides section must be added to package.json:

{\ { // highlight-start "overrides": { "xlsx": "https://cdn.sheetjs.com/xlsx-${current}/xlsx-${current}.tgz" } // highlight-end }}

gatsby-transformer-excel and gatsby-source-filesystem should be installed after installing SheetJS modules:

{`\ npx gatsby telemetry --disable npm i --save https://cdn.sheetjs.com/xlsx-${current}/xlsx-${current}.tgz npm i --save gatsby-transformer-excel gatsby-source-filesystem`} {`\ npx gatsby telemetry --disable pnpm install --save https://cdn.sheetjs.com/xlsx-${current}/xlsx-${current}.tgz pnpm install --save gatsby-transformer-excel gatsby-source-filesystem`} {`\ npx gatsby telemetry --disable yarn add https://cdn.sheetjs.com/xlsx-${current}/xlsx-${current}.tgz yarn add gatsby-transformer-excel gatsby-source-filesystem`}

GraphQL details

Under the hood, gatsby-transformer-excel uses the SheetJS read³ method to parse the workbook into a SheetJS workbook⁴. Each worksheet is extracted from the workbook. The sheet_to_json method⁵ generates row objects using the headers in the first row as keys.

Consider the following worksheet:

Assuming the file name is pres.xlsx and the data is stored in "Sheet1", the following nodes will be created:

[
  { Name: "Bill Clinton", Index: 42, type: "PresXlsxSheet1" },
  { Name: "GeorgeW Bush", Index: 43, type: "PresXlsxSheet1" },
  { Name: "Barack Obama", Index: 44, type: "PresXlsxSheet1" },
  { Name: "Donald Trump", Index: 45, type: "PresXlsxSheet1" },
  { Name: "Joseph Biden", Index: 46, type: "PresXlsxSheet1" },
]

The type is a proper casing of the file name concatenated with the sheet name.

The following query pulls the Name and Index fields from each row:

{
  allPresXlsxSheet1 { # "all" followed by type
    edges {
      node { # each line in this block should be a field in the data
        Name
        Index
      }
    }
  }
}

Complete Example

:::note Tested Deployments

This demo was tested in the following environments:

GatsbyJS	Date
5.12.1	2023-12-04
4.25.8	2024-03-27

:::

Project setup

0. Disable GatsbyJS telemetry:

npx gatsby telemetry --disable

1. Create a template site:

npx gatsby new sheetjs-gatsby

:::info pass

For older Gatsby versions, the project must be built from the starter project.

For GatsbyJS 4, the starter commit is 6bc4466090845f20650117b3d27e68e6e46dc8d5 and the steps are shown below:

git clone https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby-starter-default sheetjs-gatsby
cd sheetjs-gatsby
git checkout 6bc4466090845f20650117b3d27e68e6e46dc8d5
npm install
cd ..

:::

2. Follow the on-screen instructions for starting the local development server:

cd sheetjs-gatsby
npm run develop

Open a web browser to the displayed URL (typically http://localhost:8000/)

3. Edit package.json and add the highlighted lines in the JSON object:

{\ { // highlight-start "overrides": { "xlsx": "https://cdn.sheetjs.com/xlsx-${current}/xlsx-${current}.tgz" }, // highlight-end "name": "sheetjs-gatsby", "version": "1.0.0", }

4. Install the library and plugins:

{\ npm i --save https://cdn.sheetjs.com/xlsx-${current}/xlsx-${current}.tgz npm i --save gatsby-transformer-excel gatsby-source-filesystem }

:::info pass

For older versions of Gatsby, older versions of the dependencies must be used.

For GatsbyJS 4, the plugin version numbers align with the Gatsby version:

npm i --save gatsby-transformer-excel@4 gatsby-source-filesystem@4

:::

5. Make a src/data directory, download https://docs.sheetjs.com/pres.xlsx, and move the downloaded file into the new folder:

mkdir -p src/data
curl -L -o src/data/pres.xlsx https://docs.sheetjs.com/pres.xlsx

6. Edit gatsby-config.js and add the following lines to the plugins array:

module.exports = {
  siteMetadata: {
    title: `sheetjs-gatsby`,
    siteUrl: `https://www.yourdomain.tld`,
  },
// highlight-start
  plugins: [
    {
      resolve: `gatsby-source-filesystem`,
      options: {
        name: `data`,
        path: `${__dirname}/src/data/`,
      },
    },
    `gatsby-transformer-excel`,
  ],
// highlight-end
}

:::note pass

If the plugins array exists, the two plugins should be added at the beginning:

  plugins: [
// highlight-start
    {
      resolve: `gatsby-source-filesystem`,
      options: {
        name: `data`,
        path: `${__dirname}/src/data/`,
      },
    },
    `gatsby-transformer-excel`,
// highlight-end
    // ...

:::

Stop and restart the development server process (npm run develop).

GraphiQL test

7. Open the GraphiQL editor. The output of the previous step displayed the URL (typically http://localhost:8000/___graphql )

There is an editor in the left pane. Paste the following query into the editor:

{
  allPresXlsxSheet1 {
    edges {
      node {
        Name
        Index
      }
    }
  }
}

Press the Execute Query button (▶) and data should show up in the right pane:

React page

8. Create a new file src/pages/pres.js that uses the query and displays the result:

import { graphql } from "gatsby"
import * as React from "react"

export const query = graphql`query {
  allPresXlsxSheet1 {
    edges {
      node {
        Name
        Index
      }
    }
  }
}`;

const PageComponent = ({data}) => {
  return ( <pre>{JSON.stringify(data, 2, 2)}</pre> );
};
export default PageComponent;

After saving the file, access http://localhost:8000/pres in the browser. The displayed JSON is the data that the component receives:

{
  "allPresXlsxSheet1": {
    "edges": [
      {
        "node": {
          "Name": "Bill Clinton",
          "Index": 42
        }
      },
  // ....

9. Change PageComponent to display a table based on the data:

import { graphql } from "gatsby"
import * as React from "react"

export const query = graphql`query {
  allPresXlsxSheet1 {
    edges {
      node {
        Name
        Index
      }
    }
  }
}`;

// highlight-start
const PageComponent = ({data}) => {
  const rows = data.allPresXlsxSheet1.edges.map(r => r.node);
  return ( <table>
    <thead><tr><th>Name</th><th>Index</th></tr></thead>
    <tbody>{rows.map(row => ( <tr>
      <td>{row.Name}</td>
      <td>{row.Index}</td>
    </tr> ))}</tbody>
  </table> );
};
// highlight-end

export default PageComponent;

Going back to the browser, http://localhost:8000/pres will show a table:

Live refresh

10. Open the file src/data/pres.xlsx in Excel or another spreadsheet editor. Add a new row at the end of the file, setting cell A7 to "SheetJS Dev" and cell B7 to 47. The sheet should look like the following screenshot:

Save the file and observe that the table has refreshed with the new data:

Static site

11. Stop the development server and build the site:

npm run build

The build output will confirm that the /pres route is static:

Pages

┌ src/pages/404.js
│ ├   /404/
│ └   /404.html
├ src/pages/index.js
│ └   /
└ src/pages/pres.js
  └   /pres/

  ╭────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
  │                                                                │
  │   (SSG) Generated at build time                                │
  │ D (DSG) Deferred static generation - page generated at runtime │
  │ ∞ (SSR) Server-side renders at runtime (uses getServerData)    │
  │ λ (Function) Gatsby function                                   │
  │                                                                │
  ╰────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

The generated page will be placed in public/pres/index.html.

12. Open public/pres/index.html with a text editor and search for "SheetJS". There will be a HTML row:

<tr><td>SheetJS Dev</td><td>47</td></tr>

---

1. The package is available as gatsby-transformer-excel on the public NPM registry. It is also listed on the GatsbyJS plugin library. ↩︎

2. See the gatsby-source-filesystem plugin in the GatsbyJS documentation ↩︎

3. See read in "Reading Files" ↩︎

4. See "Workbook Object" for more details on the SheetJS workbook object. ↩︎

5. See sheet_to_json in "Utilities" ↩︎