Use Office.js APIs from outside an Office Add in

Question

In the Office.js docs one reads the following about the new ExecuteAsync() method/pattern:

"This also allows us to use the same APIs even outside of an Excel add- in. Imagine, for example, that you wanted to call Excel APIs against an > Excel workbook stored in OneDrive, but you wanted to do so from a stand-> alone web application, rather than one running inside Office 2016 for Windows or Office Online. This async model lends itself well to that capability."

Nevertheless, I wasn't able to find any explanation on how to implement such functionality in a standalone web application. Does anyone know how to do that?

Answer 1

This is referring to the new Excel REST API. Please see the documentation here: http://graph.microsoft.io/en-us/docs/api-reference/v1.0/resources/excel

Excel is so far the only Office host to support REST APIs, with the exception of OneNote's REST APIs which are independent from the Office.js effort.