Importing data from excel and displaying in a react component

Question

I am trying to import an excel sheet with multiple columns having different set of data and display it in a react component.

Currently i am doing,

<ReactFileReader handleFiles={this.handleFiles} fileType={'.xlsx'}>
    <button>Import</button>
    </ReactFileReader>

and then

 handleFiles = files =>{
    var fileDisplayArea = this.refs.fileDisplayArea;
    var reader = new FileReader();
    reader.onload = function(e){
    fileDisplayArea.innerHTML = reader.result;
    }
    reader.readAsText(files[0], 'utf-8');
    }

Although this imports the file but when rendered it displays all garbage characters. Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Vikram

Answer 1

react-excel-renderer

There's a perfect library exactly for this ! It converts the excel data to JSON first, then renders it into a HTML table. Its called react-excel-renderer

• Install it npm install react-excel-renderer --save
• Import both components ExcelRenderer and OutTable

import {ExcelRenderer, OutTable} from 'react-excel-renderer';

• Provide the file object to the ExcelRenderer function in your event handler

      fileHandler = (event) => {
    let fileObj = event.target.files[0];

    //just pass the fileObj as parameter
    ExcelRenderer(fileObj, (err, resp) => {
      if(err){
        console.log(err);            
      }
      else{
        this.setState({
          cols: resp.cols,
          rows: resp.rows
        });
      }
    });               
    }

• Once JSON is obtained, provide it to the OutTable component

<OutTable data={this.state.rows} columns={this.state.cols} tableClassName="ExcelTable2007" tableHeaderRowClass="heading" />

Thats it ! Its done !

A demo for the same can be found here