How to create an Excel File with Nodejs?

Question

I am a nodejs programmer . Now I have a table of data that I want to save in Excel File format . How do I go about doing this ?

I found a few Node libraries . But most of them are Excel Parsers rather than Excel Writers .I am using a Linux Server . Hence need something that can run on Linux . Please let me know if there are any helpful libraries that you know of .

Or is there a way I can convert a CSV file to an xls file ( programmatically ) ?

Answer 1

excel4node is a maintained, native Excel file creator built from the official specification. It's similar to, but more maintained than msexcel-builder mentioned in the other answer.

// Require library
var excel = require('excel4node');

// Create a new instance of a Workbook class
var workbook = new excel.Workbook();

// Add Worksheets to the workbook
var worksheet = workbook.addWorksheet('Sheet 1');
var worksheet2 = workbook.addWorksheet('Sheet 2');

// Create a reusable style
var style = workbook.createStyle({
  font: {
    color: '#FF0800',
    size: 12
  },
  numberFormat: '$#,##0.00; ($#,##0.00); -'
});

// Set value of cell A1 to 100 as a number type styled with paramaters of style
worksheet.cell(1,1).number(100).style(style);

// Set value of cell B1 to 300 as a number type styled with paramaters of style
worksheet.cell(1,2).number(200).style(style);

// Set value of cell C1 to a formula styled with paramaters of style
worksheet.cell(1,3).formula('A1 + B1').style(style);

// Set value of cell A2 to 'string' styled with paramaters of style
worksheet.cell(2,1).string('string').style(style);

// Set value of cell A3 to true as a boolean type styled with paramaters of style but with an adjustment to the font size.
worksheet.cell(3,1).bool(true).style(style).style({font: {size: 14}});

workbook.write('Excel.xlsx');

Answer 2

I just figured a simple way out . This works -

Just create a file with Tabs as delimiters ( similar to CSV but replace comma with Tab ). Save it with extension .XLS . The file can be opened in Excel .

Some code to help --

var fs = require('fs');
var writeStream = fs.createWriteStream("file.xls");

var header="Sl No"+"\t"+" Age"+"\t"+"Name"+"\n";
var row1 = "0"+"\t"+" 21"+"\t"+"Rob"+"\n";
var row2 = "1"+"\t"+" 22"+"\t"+"bob"+"\n";

writeStream.write(header);
writeStream.write(row1);
writeStream.write(row2);

writeStream.close();

This creates the file in XLS file format . It doesnt work if you try XLSX instead of XLS .

Answer 3

Use msexcel-builder. Install it with:

npm install msexcel-builder

Then:

// Create a new workbook file in current working-path 
var workbook = excelbuilder.createWorkbook('./', 'sample.xlsx')

// Create a new worksheet with 10 columns and 12 rows 
var sheet1 = workbook.createSheet('sheet1', 10, 12);

// Fill some data 
sheet1.set(1, 1, 'I am title');
for (var i = 2; i < 5; i++)
  sheet1.set(i, 1, 'test'+i);

// Save it 
workbook.save(function(ok){
  if (!ok) 
    workbook.cancel();
  else
    console.log('congratulations, your workbook created');
});