Excel, Word and PowerPoint files from Node.js — no Office on the server.

One package opens, edits, recalculates and saves .xlsx and .xlsm, reads .docx and adds slides to .pptx. The SumSheet, SumDoc and SumSlide cores come as a platform package next to it: nothing compiles on install, no Microsoft Office or LibreOffice needed. Your file never leaves your machine.

Install

The package is on npm: npmjs.com/package/sumoffice.

npm install sumoffice

npm adds the cores for your platform by itself (@sumofficeapp/native-darwin-arm64, -darwin-x64, -linux-x64, -linux-arm64, -win32-x64); do not install with --omit=optional. The package is an ES module: use import. Version 2026.4.3.

First result

Open a workbook, write a cell, recalculate and save; read a Word document; add a slide:

import { open, text } from "sumoffice"; const wb = open("report.xlsx"); const sheet = wb.sheet([...wb.sheets.keys()][0]); // first sheet sheet.set("B11", 41).set("C11", "=B11+1"); // number, text, null or a formula wb.recalc(); console.log(sheet.get("C11")); // 42 wb.save("report-edited.xlsx"); wb.close(); console.log(text("contract.docx")); const deck = open("deck.pptx"); deck.addSlide(); console.log(deck.slideCount); deck.save("deck-edited.pptx"); deck.close();

open() returns a workbook or a presentation by the file extension; save() without an argument overwrites the source file. Errors are OfficeError; the core release inside is coreVersion().

What is free

Without a key	30 documents per day, no expiry.
Developer key	10,000 documents per day for 90 days from issue. To request one, write to hello@sumoffice.com with the subject “Developer key”. Put the key in `SUMOFFICE_LICENSE`, or the path to the key file in `SUMOFFICE_LICENSE_FILE`.
When the quota is used up	`LicenseQuotaError` right away, with a link to this section. No waiting, no slowdown.
What counts	Opening or saving a file in any of the three cores — workbooks, documents and presentations share one daily count. Edits inside an open file, however many cells you change, are not counted.

What it does not do

Show files to people. There is no viewer or browser editor in the package: view(path) answers where to get the SumOffice server, or uploads the file to your server and returns the editor link.
Run VBA macros. It keeps them, byte for byte.
Convert to PDF or render page images in this release.
Edit Word text through the short API. Reading is one call; editing goes through the low-level Session.

When people need to see the files

The library makes and changes files inside your program. Showing them to people and letting them edit is a job for the rest of SumOffice:

In the browser — the SumOffice server. The files your code generates open in SumSheet, SumDoc and SumSlide editors in the browser; several people can edit at once and the result comes back as a new version. How the server works · connect it to Nextcloud, ownCloud, Seafile, Moodle, Odoo.
On the computer — the desktop apps. SumSheet, SumDoc and SumSlide for macOS and Windows. Download.
Inside your own product — SumOffice Embedded. The same editors built into your web or mobile app. SumOffice Embedded.

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