README.md

Description

An example Angular6 application that shows how to export data to an excel file.

Instruction

Start application

Simple start application by executing ng serve command.

Use in your project

Follow this instruction if you want to export data to excel file in your project.

1. Add xlsx dependency

npm:

npm install xlsx --save

yarn:

yarn install xlsx --save

2. Implement ExcelService

import {Injectable} from '@angular/core';
import * as XLSX from 'xlsx';

@Injectable()
export class ExcelService {

  constructor() {
  }

  static toExportFileName(excelFileName: string): string {
    return `${excelFileName}_export_${new Date().getTime()}.xlsx`;
  }

  public exportAsExcelFile(json: any[], excelFileName: string): void {
    const worksheet: XLSX.WorkSheet = XLSX.utils.json_to_sheet(json);
    const workbook: XLSX.WorkBook = {Sheets: {'data': worksheet}, SheetNames: ['data']};
    XLSX.writeFile(workbook, ExcelService.toExportFileName(excelFileName));
  }
}