Excel-Gen-AI

A Next.js application with an Excel-like interface using Jspreadsheet, available as an Electron desktop application.

Requirements

• Node.js 18 or higher
• npm or yarn

Installation and Setup

1. Clone the repository

2. Install dependencies:

   npm install
   

3. Create a .env file in the root directory with your OpenAI API key:

   OPENAI_API_KEY=your_api_key_here
   

Running the Application

Development mode:

# Start Next.js development server
npm run dev
# In a separate terminal, start Electron
npm run electron-dev

Production build:

# Build Next.js
npm run build
# Start Electron with production build
npm run electron-start

Tech Stack

• Next.js 14
• TypeScript
• Jspreadsheet CE
• Electron
• OpenAI API

Development Roadmap

• Add a chat history
• Add visualizations / graphing
• Add excel import / export
• Try to respect formatting on import
• Add an accept / reject button on the chat response prior to applying it to the spreadsheet
• Other kinds of operations (hide rows where, hide columns where, sort table by attribute, etc.)
• Support for multiple sheets (or select sheet to use on import)
• Make more of the top toolbar buttons work (first check out of the box hands on table functionality)
• [] Keybindings / hotkeys
• Hide chat window with expand / collapse button