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i want exactly the opposite - something that does not try to be a spreadsheet, but gives me a grid view of a database table, with concurrent edits a la google sheets, and lets me access the same data from my webapp backend.
i have been searching for this for literally years, all the time maintaining an app as a google sheets script, because much as i would prefer something self-hosted and customisable, that collaborative grid view is the ideal user interface from my users' point of view. so far nothing has fit the bill - basetool (https://github.com/basetool-io/basetool) might have but it's discontinued and underdocumented, and i'm not really a web developer so i don't feel up to the challenge of getting it running and integrated into an app.
grist actually came really close from a ui perspective, but it was too focused on being a spreadsheet and doing computation in the frontend. i filed an issue that explains my use case in more detail: https://github.com/gristlabs/grist-core/issues/422
You can embed an integrated Jupyter notebook into a Grist spreadsheet: https://github.com/gristlabs/jupyterlite-widget/blob/main/US...
You can checkout opensource project Rowyhttps://github.com/rowyio/rowy - it a spreadsheet UI for database and can do databasy things like you said!
formulas but in JS/TS,
A while back [this project (grid studio)](https://github.com/ricklamers/gridstudio) looked interesting but I don't think its being maintained.
Shame, as I agree that something like that would solve a lot of problems.
At the moment, excel and spreadsheet solutions as a whole are so different from any actual programming/data work that goes on, that business logic has to be completely rewritten (e.g.) a team of excel based analysts pass something over to developers to integrate into data pipelines.
Would be great if tools kept people at least in the same ballpark.
i want exactly the opposite - something that does not try to be a spreadsheet, but gives me a grid view of a database table, with concurrent edits a la google sheets, and lets me access the same data from my webapp backend.
i have been searching for this for literally years, all the time maintaining an app as a google sheets script, because much as i would prefer something self-hosted and customisable, that collaborative grid view is the ideal user interface from my users' point of view. so far nothing has fit the bill - basetool (https://github.com/basetool-io/basetool) might have but it's discontinued and underdocumented, and i'm not really a web developer so i don't feel up to the challenge of getting it running and integrated into an app.
grist actually came really close from a ui perspective, but it was too focused on being a spreadsheet and doing computation in the frontend. i filed an issue that explains my use case in more detail: https://github.com/gristlabs/grist-core/issues/422
This is what we're trying to do with [Mathesar](https://github.com/centerofci/mathesar). We probably don't meet your needs yet because we don't support real-time concurrent editing, but we're actively working on the project and it is early days.
Have you seen https://github.com/nocodb/nocodb? I'm not sure it supports concurrent editing, but seems like it might.