We often export data from tables to excel sheets in web applications. There are two ways to implement the export functionality in React: one is by using any third party library, and the other is by creating your component. In this post, we will see how to implement excel export functionality in React app in both ways.

Here are the topics we will be going through in this article:

Example Project

Prerequisites

Export Functionality Implementation

Export Functionality With ThirdParty or NPM lib

Summary

Conclusion

A quick tip before we start: Use Bit (Github) to share, reuse and update your React components across apps. Bit tracks and bundles reusable components in your projects, and exports them encapsulated with their dependencies, compilers and everything else. Components can then be installed with package managers, and even updated right from any new project. Give it a try.

Example Project

Here is a simple app with the table data and export button on the top right corner. When you click on the button, data from the table is downloaded in an excel sheet.

React Export Example

You can import the project from here and run it directly.