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by Xorlev 3014 days ago
Not to detract from this project, buy this is a good opportunity to mention Apps Script.

You can do all sorts of interesting things between a form, spreadsheet, and other services including your own. Nobody seems to use it, but internally we do all sorts of gloriously hacky workflows with it.

You can easily script forms/sheets/calendar/Gmail together to create pretty much anything you need.

I use it to send daily email reports of data fed into a spreadsheet.

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Ah sure, no problem, feel free to do a PR mentioning App Scripts as well if you'd like.

From a quick overview it seems like if you need serious work with spreadsheets/GDocs then App Scripts is a good choice. However drive-db is more like a (very) quick way of putting a Spreadsheet into your Node.js backend as an array/db. I purposefully didn't even allow edit since that'd require API keys from users and defeat the quick part of it.