Spreadsheets are an important and powerful business tool, which are used to store valuable information.

For example,

In the financial sector, they are used for managing account information, budgets, transactions, billing, invoices, and receipts.

In schools, teachers can use spreadsheets to track students progress, calculate grades, and identify relevant data, such as high and low scores, missing tests, and students who are struggling.

Managing lists like telephone directories, to-do lists, grocery lists, etc.

Spreadsheets help us to manage a large amount of data in a grid type structure, with lots of other features like conditional formatting, comparison, filtering and so on.

Nowadays, the scope of spreadsheets includes web applications as well. We already have Online Spreadsheet apps like ZOHO Sheet, Google Sheets, Microsoft Office 365, Quip, Smartsheet, Airtable, etc. These applications are only used for managing spreadsheets.

But what if we want to add spreadsheet features to our web applications, for example, to display employees in an employee management system, a grade list in an online examination system or inventories in an inventory management system.

We can do a lot more by providing a spreadsheet experience in our web applications. For this purpose, we can use grids or data-tables, but these tools do not provide the same spreadsheet experience in a web application.

The best tool to provide the same spreadsheet experience in a web application is Handsontable.