Grist Static

This is a way to view and interact with .grist files (Grist spreadsheets) on regular websites, with no special back-end support needed. The idea here is that it would be great for making reports if we could put spreadsheets on a website like we do PDFs, with nice formatting and navigation options and not much fuss. If you can run a special back-end, grist-core is the most battle-tested way to host Grist spreadsheets. And for many purposes Grist embedding may be adequate, where your embed a Grist spreadsheet from an external Grist installation (such as the hosted service offered by Grist Labs). But if you cannot host your data externally, and don't want the operational burden of standing up a Grist installation of your own, grist-static gives you a way to easily render Grist spreadsheets on regular websites. Like a PDF, people will be able to view the spreadsheet, navigate around in it, and search within it. Better than a PDF, they'll be able to change selections, and experiment with changing numbers to see what happens. Every viewer has their own copy, and their changes won't be seen by others, or stored. This would also be a scalable way to show a Grist document to millions of simultaneous users. https://gristlabs.github.io/grist-static shows a couple of example Grist documents hosted on GitHub Pages: Grist Static is the open-source project gristlabs/grist-static (https://github.com/gristlabs/grist-static) by gristlabs, released under Apache-2.0. Ion packages it unmodified from commit e4aa8369de02, adding only a manifest, an icon and a storage compatibility script.

Written by gristlabs, published to Oikou by Ben Grande.

• ★ 201 stars on GitHub
• Licence: Apache-2.0
• Built from commit e4aa8369de02

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Not rated. Nobody has said who this app is suitable for, so Personal Clouds and the Oikou app treat it as 18+.

Internet

It asks to reach these hosts, and no others:

• grist-static.com
• cdn.jsdelivr.net
• cdnjs.cloudflare.com
• unpkg.com
• picsum.photos

Personal Cloud tools

• Keep a database of its own on your Personal Cloud ion.db

Notifications

It does not send push notifications.

Storage

Up to 16 MB on your Personal Cloud.

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