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Hello HN,

I’m Robbert, the creator of editCSVonline.com.

editCSVonline is a free & lightweight Vanilla Javascript web app for editing CSV files online in a spreadsheet-like matter.

It uses two Javascript libraries: the first is PapaParse for parsing CSV files, the second is DataGridXL, the fast and reliable Excel-like data grid. (I am the author of DataGridXL: I was very happy to see the lib reach the front page on Hacker News some three months ago.)

I have created editCSVonline for a number of reasons:

- It's nice for anyone to not have to resort to Google Sheets or Microsoft Excel to edit a simple CSV file.

- I use simple tools like this (tools that aid developers) all the time: tools like JSON linters, favicon generators or SVG icon finders. This is my free help-a-fellow-dev web app.

- It promotes my product DataGridXL.

In many cases I have found that editing CSV files using editCSVonline/DataGridXL gives better performance than Google Sheets, which I am quite proud of. Take a look at the DataGridXL performance demo (https://www.datagridxl.com/demos/one-million-cells) to see the difference with other data grids out there.

Please let me know if you have any suggestions or comments!

I like the interface and the impressive performance. Highly recommend it!