Read Excel File and Convert Into JSON using Node.js and Express

hello everyone in this video i am gonna show you how to read excel file using node.js and express server this is the sample excel file i use this tutorial let's we will move to the coding part i created simple node.js application with express server and install necessary dependencies for required distorter connect excel to json express fps extra master and nodement i will put dependencies links in this video description so you can refer more about these defense dependencies let's start the coding firstly i want to mention that this is not the beginning level tutorial so i am not going to explain everything from scratch let's initialize the express server and other experts which server is going to listen on port 3000 this is the destination going to save our uploaded files and declare our root we use single file though that's why i use single keyword in master our server is known for 3000 let's add try catch to handle errors on this application let's check if they have a file or not if file name null undefined we can send error message to user else we can handle our business logic connect excel to json dependencies do mapping sheet columns to object key so we can do give a source file path and we need to skip the first row in the sheet because they have column names we don't need that you can do a lot of things in using this package so refer the documentation and try it out we don't need to save uploaded file after reading it in our server so we need to remove it so we can use file system to remove that file then we can send we restart to user let's start the server look like everything is good so let's check the code for api testing i use thunderbolt from the client extension in vs code it's easy to use let's give the root and select method as post let's give the file name and choose the file let's see yeah it's working uh our excel file connect to json format and that's it i hope you enjoyed this video thank you you

Channel: NOD

Views: 9,006

Keywords: Node, Express, Excel, Read, JSON

Id: trS-sU8CGq0

Length: 6min 49sec (409 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 01 2022