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How to View XLSX in a Vue Web App

By Andrey Safonov | 2022 Jul 27

2 min

Additional Functionality

But WebViewer also supports more than just viewing Office documents. Additional offerings include annotation, mail merge on XLSX templates, text editing, page manipulation, redaction, form filling and creation, and a lot more.

WebViewer also supports formats like PDF, images, videos, and CAD documents.

How to View XLSX in a React Web App

Step 1 - Get Started

Once the Vue doc viewer example is up and running, pass the URL, blob, file path, or arrayBuffer to `initialDoc` property in WebViewer constructor.

Code Example for Vue Document Viewer

WebViewer({
  ...,
  initialDoc: 'https://myserver.com/myfile.xlsx',
}, document.getElementById('viewer'));

You can also call `loadDocument` with the same parameters.

WebViewer(...)
  .then(instance => {
    instance.UI.loadDocument('https://myserver.com/myfile.xlsx', { filename: 'myfile.xlsx' });
  });

Step 2 - Run the App

Now, you can run the app via 'npm start'.

To view the npm React file viewer xlsx app, navigate to http://localhost:3000. If you change any source files, the app automatically reloads.

A Customizable UI

When configuring the UI, use a rich set of APIs included with WebViewer. Read the UI customization guide to see all the possibilities, or create your own UI by referencing our open-source UI code.

Conclusion

You can easily add Office document viewing and collaboration to your native npm React file browser app with Apryse’s WebViewer, a JavaScript-based MS Office SDK. View the source code for this post on our GitHub page.

You can also see other capabilities on our showcase.

If you have any questions about Apryse’s SDK or WebViewer, please get in touch.