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+# stand
+
+An editable, filterable and sortable spreadsheet (via [AG Grid](https://www.ag-grid.com/)) webapp (via [NiceGUI](https://nicegui.io/)) with REST API (via [FastAPI](https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/)) using [Pandas](https://pandas.pydata.org/) [DataFrames](https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/reference/api/pandas.DataFrame.html) backed by [ArcticDB](https://arcticdb.io/).
+
+## Setup the environment
+
+```bash
+pixi install
+```
+
+## Start the webapp
+
+```bash
+pixi shell
+./stand.py
+```
+
+## Interact in the browser
+
+- **edit**: double click a cell
+- **filter**: click the filter icon on a column head
+- **sort**: click a column head (cycles through ascending, descending, chronological)
+