export-csv

Blog - article

http://javaee.ch/2017/03/05/angular-and-javascript-export-your-data-to-csv-using-typescript/

Example

Goal - Export your web table to Excel in a click

Many js applications show tables and data. Very often the business users need the possibility to export their data in excel. Most of the time a simple export (no server required) is enough.

Description

This package easily export to the CSV the content of an array of objects (JavaScript or JSON, e.g. table of data on the screen) to a format compatible with Excel.

The generated document is in UTF-8 with BOF. This allows the characters to be correctly showed in Excel.

Features

• The library has been written in Typescript and target Angular (1.x, >=2).
• It is possible to decide which columns export and in which order.

Installation

npm i @molteni/export-csv --save

or add to your package.json in the 'dependencies' : "@molteni/export-csv": "^0.0.3",

Usage

In Angular import the library with: import {ExportToCSV} from "@molteni/export-csv";

Use the library:

Export only one specific columns

exportColumnsToCSV(JSONListItemsToPublish : any[], fileName : string, columns : string[]);

exporter = new ExportToCSV();
exporter.exportColumnsToCSV(this.blogArticles, "filename", ["title"])

exporter = new ExportToCSV();
objectToExport = [{column : 'äàü£™ , ®, ©,'}, {column: 'second row'}];
exporter.exportColumnsToCSV(objectToExport, "filename", ["column"])

Export all the columns

exportAllToCSV(JSONListItemsToPublish : any[], fileName : string);

var exporter = new ExportToCSV();
exporter.exportColumnsToCSV(this.blogArticles, "filename")