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 m

Answer 1

XLSx in the new Office is just a zipped collection of XML and other files. So you could generate that and zip it accordingly.

Bonus: you can create a very nice template with styles and so on:

1. Create a template in 'your favorite spreadsheet program'
2. Save it as ODS or XLSx
3. Unzip the contents
4. Use it as base and fill content.xml (or xl/worksheets/sheet1.xml) with your data
5. Zip it all before serving

However I found ODS (openoffice) much more approachable (excel can still open it), here is what I found in content.xml

    
        here be a1
    
    
        here is b1