By Paul Scanlon

How To Use Google Sheets as a Database With React via Next.js

In this tutorial I’ll be explaining how to use Google Sheets as a database to store the results of a user poll. I’ve used this React Google Sheets approach for a number of marketing campaigns. I chose this method over a more traditional Database solution for one reason: Data retrieval.

It does of course entirely depend on your requirements, but having the ability to simply share a Google Sheet with a technical or non-technical member of my team — so they can easily see captured data — has, on more than one occasion, proved really valuable.

Data is sent from the browser to a Server Action that securely posts to a Google Sheet, which stores the data. To use Server Actions in React, I’ll be using Next.js.

On the following links you will find a Live Preview and GitHub Repository for the completed user poll application.

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