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Servers and Remote Data

SheetJS libraries are commonly used in data pipelines for processing personally identifiable information (PII).

Libraries never attempt to make network requests and never collect telemetry.

In practice, there are many interesting networking use cases including server processing of user-submitted files and fetching files from an external source.

When processing data from an external source, a platform-specific operation will obtain binary data and SheetJS libraries will process the data.

When exporting data, SheetJS libraries will generate raw data and platform-specific operations will distribute the data.

The demos in this section cover common use cases: