Ethersheet – An open-source collaborative spreadsheet

Looks like a great start! First thing that comes to mind - let arrow keys move the focus to the adjacent cells. Without this it is a huge usability loss.

I gave it a quick spin and it seems like it needs more work to behave like a spreadsheet.

Even simple circular references are not detected right now. For example, I put some numbers from A1 through A5 and then put a SUM(A1:A6) into A6. It added everything up (including the sum itself) and keeps updating A6 with the sum of A1:A5 every time I move from one cell to another using Enter or Tab. You can see this at https://ethersheet.org/s/IsThisAwesomeNow

And also, as @binarymax stated, arrow keys to navigate (along with F2 to edit a cell instead of the default of putting a cell in edit mode), usage of arrow keys within formulas to get cell references (instead of typing the cell reference), easy ways to format cells, easy way to extend the width or height of columns/rows...I presume there's a large backlog of features to implement. :)

Right now, this is far behind EtherCalc in terms of features and usability.

I was looking for a spreadsheet which I could use to implement custom formulas that would interact with a client-side app, and embed the sheets in the app also, so I started building this: https://github.com/fiatjaf/react-microspreadsheet

Here's a hosted version for test: http://sheets.alhur.es/test

It has a lot of features (try the edge cases if you feel like and report your experience to me, please), but it also has some bugs with, for example, the click-at-a-cell-to-add-it-as-input-to-the-currently-being-edited-cell. I'm seeking to make this work.

There are some bugs with the formula parsing too, but they are easy to solve, I'm just being lazy. I was using a very nasty raw regex parsing, but I switched to a Jison implementation that is more reliable, I guess. I've never done this before, though.

I wish I had your design skills.

My spreadsheet sideproject: www.cellmaster.com.au

Small business wants to automate. At the moment they use spreadsheets, email and web forms to interact with customers, but want these to work together. I have seen 20 requests a week, on a single forum, for small bits of code. Code to do very simple automation tasks. I am making it so they can automate with only basic spreadsheet skills.

Happy to chat with you eddyparkinson after the at add gmail dot com

Looks pretty similar to ethercalc... https://ethercalc.org

Like ethercalc, you can use any URL, even non-secret ones like: https://ethersheet.org/s/1

I love that it's anonymous. It would be cool if it had a read only version (using a random url) to share. Like piratepad (etherpad) has.

It doesn't currently mention this on the site, but one use case for Ethersheet is to embed it as a component in a larger application.

How do you get a sum of a range of cells?

How is this better than ethercalc?

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