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This is a placeholder package for SheetJS. If you are looking for spreadsheet-related libraries:
xlsx
File I/Ocodepage
Character Encodingscfb
OLE and ZIP utilitiescrc-32
CRC-32 libraryssf
value formatterThanks to @jshanson7 for graciously letting us
put up this placeholder. The original project that used the name sheetjs
is
https://github.com/jshanson7/sheetjs and still available on NPM in the 1.x.x
version series.
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Placeholder package for SheetJS
The npm package sheetjs receives a total of 5,006 weekly downloads. As such, sheetjs popularity was classified as popular.
We found that sheetjs demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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