Building spreadsheets with Go and Excelize
Blog post from LogRocket
Analyzing data is crucial in today's data-driven world, particularly for developers who must choose suitable databases and data structures when building applications. The article demonstrates how to efficiently generate and present data using spreadsheets by creating an expense report in Go, leveraging the Excelize library to export it into a CSV format. This process involves setting up a Go project, installing Excelize for XLSX file manipulation, and using its methods to create, style, and populate a worksheet with both static and dynamic data. Additionally, the article explains saving the report as an XLSX file and converting it to a CSV file for easy integration with databases or other applications. The overall goal is to provide an accessible approach to data presentation and manipulation using Go, while also highlighting the versatility of Excelize for tasks such as adding images and creating charts.