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by mgkimsal 592 days ago
Can't tell by the docs (but I've not dug in much yet) but... @nhatcher... here's a use case question.

Admins use the ironcalc UI to create their formulas. Is there a way to get those formulas to a backend and run the calcs on the server itself (separate from the user's browser) to get results based on input from other sources?

The UI half looks great so far. I have a colleague I was going to recommend this to, but they more need the 'run the formulas on the server' part more than anything else. They've got some custom Rust stuff running already, but having admins come up with their advanced formulas, then translating that to server code - that takes the time. It seems they may be able to use this to have this handle both ends of the workload, without the translation layer.

Is that something supported, or even feasible?

Thanks!

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Yes, IronCalc is first a spreadsheet engine. Meaning it is a library you can consume from Rust or Python without any UI.