npm package discovery and stats viewer.

Discover Tips

  • General search

    [free text search, go nuts!]

  • Package details

    pkg:[package-name]

  • User packages

    @[username]

Sponsor

Optimize Toolset

I’ve always been into building performant and accessible sites, but lately I’ve been taking it extremely seriously. So much so that I’ve been building a tool to help me optimize and monitor the sites that I build to make sure that I’m making an attempt to offer the best experience to those who visit them. If you’re into performant, accessible and SEO friendly sites, you might like it too! You can check it out at Optimize Toolset.

About

Hi, 👋, I’m Ryan Hefner  and I built this site for me, and you! The goal of this site was to provide an easy way for me to check the stats on my npm packages, both for prioritizing issues and updates, and to give me a little kick in the pants to keep up on stuff.

As I was building it, I realized that I was actually using the tool to build the tool, and figured I might as well put this out there and hopefully others will find it to be a fast and useful way to search and browse npm packages as I have.

If you’re interested in other things I’m working on, follow me on Twitter or check out the open source projects I’ve been publishing on GitHub.

I am also working on a Twitter bot for this site to tweet the most popular, newest, random packages from npm. Please follow that account now and it will start sending out packages soon–ish.

Open Software & Tools

This site wouldn’t be possible without the immense generosity and tireless efforts from the people who make contributions to the world and share their work via open source initiatives. Thank you 🙏

© 2024 – Pkg Stats / Ryan Hefner

ex-json-cli

v1.0.2

Published

Manage your json data better with visual excel sheets

Downloads

5

Readme

Manage your json data better with visual Excel sheets

npm

English | 简体中文

Effect preview

Template Excel file: template Excel file

Output json data: output json data

Introduction

ex-json-cli, which is composed of three words 'excel', 'json' and 'cli'.

Practical problems

Sometimes, in order to save the back-end development cost, we will store some data directly in json, and then use these data for rendering. But:

  • If there are more pages or modules that need data, the corresponding json files will also increase. There are too many files, the data is too fragmented, and managing so many files becomes troublesome.
  • When the amount of data is large, the data will become very lengthy, and it is very difficult to find a specific piece of data directly.
  • Sometimes' json' is not a good way to spread our data when we want to share it with other non-developers.

Why choose Excel to manage data?

  • More convenient operation. Excel is a professional office software. It is much more convenient to add, delete and check data in Excel than to modify it in our editor.
  • More visual. Each sheet can be regarded as the data of a page or a module; The name of each sheet is the name of our json; Every row of data in the table is the data of every item in our json.
  • More convenient management. The data are all integrated in an Excel file, which is more convenient for us to manage the data of all modules or pages.
  • More suitable for communication. Json is not suitable for spreading among non-developers, but Excel is suitable for everyone. Not only can non-developers modify this Excel, but if you find something wrong in Excel, you can also modify it, and then synchronize it with others.

Tools are born

Therefore, in order to solve the above problems and combine the comprehensive advantages of Excel, ex-JSON-CLI came into being, so you just need to focus on managing the Excel file. s

Quick start

1. Installation tool

npm i ex-json-cli -g

2. Get the template excel file

You don't need to make an excel form yourself, here is a template excel file, you just need to execute:

ex-json-cli gt

Or save the template file to a directory:

ex-json-cli gt './xlsx_template/'

In this way, we can get an excel template file, and then change the data in it into what you want. Yes, it's as simple as that.

3. Output the json file.

you can go to the Explanation module to get a better understanding of -k and -s.

ex-json-cli -i './xlsx_template/template.xlsx' -s 3 -r all

Notice

In the process of use, here are the following precautions: -When generating json data, please ensure that the value of -s is correct. -s means that data is read from the first row of each sheet, and the default value is line 3.

Options and commands

Usage: ex-json-cli [options] [command]

=> Manage your json data better with visual excel sheets

Options:
-v View current version
-i, --input [path] Path of excel to be converted
-s, --start-row [number] Read data from what row of sheet
-r, --range [string] Select the table you want to read
-h, --help View help

Commands:
gt [path] Get the excel template file

option

| Parameter | Is it necessary | Default value | Description | Supplement | ---| --- | --- | --- | --- | -v | No || View the current version | | -i | is ||| The path of the excel table to be converted | | -s | No | 3 | Which row in the excel table should read data from | The data is read from the third row by default. | -r | No | all | Read that sheet from the excel table | Read all sheets by default. | -h | No || View Help |

command

| Statement | Parameter | Description | ---| --- | --- | | gt| path| path Save the directory for the obtained template excel file. < /br > when path is empty, the obtained template excel file is saved in the xlsx_template folder of the current directory by default.

Explanation

The overall structure of a table is generally divided into three parts (top, middle, bottom): -The first block, which we call (t), refers to the headline of the whole table. -The second block, which we call (m), is an overview of each column of information in the table. -The third block, which we call ( b), is the number of rows where the program will start reading data (-s 3).

How to use your own excel sheet

Because everyone's excel is different, we strongly recommend that you use our template excel file (template.xlsx) to manage data, but the style of this file may not satisfy you.

So if you want to 'DIY' the style of the table, according to the analysis of the Explanation module, 'DIY' your table needs to follow the following rules: -modules' t' and' m' are not necessary, * * However, please ensure that the data in your excel file has the same structure as the module' b' in the above figure * * -Please make sure that your -s value is correct.