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

Using fs package we can create excel/CSV file from JSON data.

Step 1: Store JSON data in a variable (here it is in jsn variable).

Step 2: Create empty string variable(here it is data).

Step 3: Append every property of jsn to string variable data, while appending put '\t' in-between 2 cells and '\n' after completing the row.

Code:

var fs = require('fs');

var jsn = [{
    "name": "Nilesh",
    "school": "RDTC",
    "marks": "77"
   },{
    "name": "Sagar",
    "school": "RC",
    "marks": "99.99"
   },{
    "name": "Prashant",
    "school": "Solapur",
    "marks": "100"
 }];

var data='';
for (var i = 0; i < jsn.length; i++) {
    data=data+jsn[i].name+'\t'+jsn[i].school+'\t'+jsn[i].marks+'\n';
 }
fs.appendFile('Filename.xls', data, (err) => {
    if (err) throw err;
    console.log('File created');
 });