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+# Mini excel app
+## _Small application covering the basic functionality of Excel_
+
+The application is a SPA consisting of two screens
+- Dashboard (Create new table or open saved)
+- Excel (Excel table editing page)
+
+
+Technologies used in this project:
+- Typescript
+- ES6+
+- SCSS
+- Redux
+- Webpack 5
+- Jest
+
+
+## Implemented functionality
+- Resize table rows/columns
+- Navigation and selection of cells using the function keys (Ctrl, Shift, Arrows), or using the mouse
+- Mathematical calculations in a formula
+- Ability to add/remove columns via context menu (right mouse button)
+- Changing cell style: size, font, alignment
+- Saving to LocalStorage, also implemented the ability to delete certain tables
+
+## Installation
+
+Requires [Node.js](https://nodejs.org/) v16+ to run.
+
+Install the dependencies and devDependencies and start the server.
+
+```sh
+npm install
+```
+
+For development run the command to create local webpack dev server
+
+```sh
+npm run start
+```
+
+For build use  
+```sh
+npm run build
+```
+
+For deploy edit deploy config file `configs/deploy/sftp-configs.js`
+```sh
+module.exports = {
+  config: {
+    host: 'host',
+    port: 'port',
+    username: 'username',
+    password: 'password',
+  },
+  directory: 'path to directory'
+};
+```
+and run 
+```sh
+npm run deploy
+```
+
+Testing
+
+Run jest test by
+```sh
+npm run test
+```
+or
+```sh
+npm run test-watch
+```
+## License
+
+MIT
diff --git a/configs/deploy/sftp-config.js b/configs/deploy/sftp-config.js
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+module.exports = {
+  config: {
+    host: 'host',
+    port: 'port',
+    username: 'username',
+    password: 'password',
+  },
+  directory: 'directory'
+};
+
diff --git a/deploy-config.js b/deploy-config.js
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 const path = require('path');
 const SftpClient = require('ssh2-sftp-client');
 const dotenv = require('dotenv');
-const { config } = require('./configs/deploy/sftp-config');
+const { config, directory } = require('./configs/deploy/sftp-config');
 
-const REMOTE_DIRECTORY = '/var/www/mysite/excel';
+const REMOTE_DIRECTORY = directory;
 const LOCAL_DIRECTORY = path.join(__dirname, 'dist');
 
 const dotenvPath = path.join(__dirname, '..', '.env');