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Are there any more full-featured libraries that people use for this?

I've found SpreadJS[0], GelSheet[1], jQuery.Sheet[2], and ZK Spreadsheet, but none seem like thriving open-source projects as far as I can tell.

[0] http://wijmo.com/demo/spreadjs/samples/index.html

[1] http://www.gelsheet.org/demo

[2] http://visop-dev.com/Project+jQuery.sheet

[3] http://www.zkoss.org/product/zkspreadsheet

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I've been a fan of SlickGrid for a while, it handles huge data sets relatively well. If you want excel-style functionality it'll still take a little work.

https://github.com/mleibman/SlickGrid

SlickGrid is very nice and seems very advanced. Thanks!

Probably not, since you can't really make a spreadsheet-like widget unless you endeavor to make it an Excel clone.

Many grid (table) widgets support edit-in-place, but that's as far as most of them go. The target userbase for full-featured spreadsheets is going to be users whom I'd presume already have access to Excel (edit: and/or access to a compatible product, like Google's online version or maybe one of the FOSS MSO replacements).

I have used http://handsontable.com/ before in my projects.

The most full featured OS JS spreadsheet I know of is ethercalc, check it out. It's even got a rest api..

Was going to comment along the same lines. Might not be "a library", but absolutely worth a look:

https://github.com/audreyt/ethercalc

Whilst not focused on being an Excel clone, Backgrid has worked great for me. It's bound to backbone/underscore if you're already using that.

http://backgridjs.com/

Styles and Graphs - Spreadsheet GNU GPLv2 : http://www.simple-groupware.de/cms/Spreadsheet/Home

Keep thinking I need to convert this to JS: Spreadsheet formulas that build web applications - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oogKKfbRyMQ (2 Min)

I'd really love to see one that supports a hierarchy of JSON data, such as a treegrid.

Can you explain how such a tree would map inside a graph? I can't think of an obvious use case.

The use case is something like this: http://ludo.cubicphuse.nl/jquery-treetable/

It would be nice if something like that existed, but with much richer features like the libraries above.

IIRC, both datatables [1] and JQGrid [2] do this, right?

[1] http://datatables.net/

[2]http://trirand.com/blog/jqgrid/jqgrid.html

How about editing csv files in a git repo?

how much money is that worth to you?

Formula.js has most of the excel formulas in a library. http://stoic.com/formula/index.html

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