I once build a Rails app that translated a giant Google Sheets document into a web application.
What I found really fascinating was that:
95% of my development time was spent building CRUD, access control, UI that was already more-or-less provided for free in Sheets
5% of my development time was spent writing unit tests and services that implemented the actual logic and formulae in the spreadsheet. Even though this was the tricky, business critical "thinking carefully" part, it was also the least time consuming.
It just goes to show, even compared with Rails, applications like Excel and Sheets give you a LOT for free, out of the box, accessible to everyone.
I once build a Rails app that translated a giant Google Sheets document into a web application.
What I found really fascinating was that:
95% of my development time was spent building CRUD, access control, UI that was already more-or-less provided for free in Sheets
5% of my development time was spent writing unit tests and services that implemented the actual logic and formulae in the spreadsheet. Even though this was the tricky, business critical "thinking carefully" part, it was also the least time consuming.
It just goes to show, even compared with Rails, applications like Excel and Sheets give you a LOT for free, out of the box, accessible to everyone.